The gout...

I've just read an interesting article in today's Guardian, about gout. The crutches, now kept under the stairs, remind me of how things were during the early days of lockdown, when I had some painful episodes with gout. I couldn’t even get upstairs. Now that I take two tablets per day of Allopurinol (as mentioned in the article), gout is hopefully a thing of the past. The cartoon, by James Gillray, dates back to 1799; I can vouch for the accuracy of the representation…