Gout : the patrician malady

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments Xlll
1 Introduction 1
HISTORIES
2. The Classical Inheritance 13
3. Prometheus's Vulture: The Renaissance Fashioning of Gout 22
4. Science and Sydenham 36
5. The Eighteenth-Century Medical Debates 48
CULTURES
6. Gout and the Georgian Gentleman 71
7. Smollett, Cadogan and Controversy 93
8. Change and Continuity, 1790-1850 125
9 Indian Summer: Romantic and Victorian Gout 143
10. Gout and Glory: Garrod and After 173
GOUTOMETRIES
11. Podagra Ludens: Disease and Discourse 211
I. Podagra ludens: Ludic representations 211
II. The Ludanic and Menippean heritage 2I3
III. The rhetoric of swelling 2l6
IV. Homo ludens and the neo-Ludanic heritage 2I9
V. The metaphoric heritage 229
12. Gout: The Visual Heritage 248
Epilogue 284
Notes 286
Bibliography 327
Index 380