The Honour of the Gout

Author(s): Philander Misaurus

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Humor, Medical

Narrators: Alister

Number of Chapters: 8

Length: 01 hour and 17 minutes

Language: English

This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of that aflicktion, and upon the vain and mischievous cheats who affeckt to cure it.

The gauntlet here so-toss'd by Philander Misaurus was later pick'd up by surgeon John Marten in his rejoinder, titled by the name–"The Dishonour of the Gout". Which seeketh to shew all minds swayed by Philander's prettie words that—indubitably—Gout is misfortune.

- Summary by Alasdair (Alister)