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The Gout

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
November
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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In relation to goHt, a clever and amusing writer says : " A man goes to bed happy, and is awakened after a few hours' sleep, usually between 1 and í o'clock in the morning, with ])ain in. the ball of the great toe, whieh inereases. with a sense of burning and throbbing,. and he finds next morning that his toe is swollen, with a deep-red shiningskin. Moreover, it is so cxquisitely tender that during the height of the attack he eannot bear the weight of the beielothes, or the shaking of the bed by footsteps in the room. Thero are a series of such attacks. Then the swelling abaten. In a few days the skin itches and peels off, and there is in the joint only some little remaining taiiderness. That is the form of a brisk first attack ia a man otherwise healthv. Gout has a partiality for gnawing at a man's great toe." As for the pain, " Screw your joint," said a Frenchman, " in a vise till you can no longer bear the pressur(! - that is rheumatisni ; then give the vice another twist - that is gout." Gout, having once seized on its chosen outwork, has a tendeney to fight its way upward, flrst storming the ankles, then making an ugly rush upon the knee, then taking possession of the hands and elbows, and sometimes striking to the stomach, wlien it generally proves fatal. Killing a Grizzly. One of the largest grizzly bears ever seen in California was killed near Monterey a short time ago. He weiglied over 1,700 pounds, and, from the fact that he was in the liabit of killing fullgrown cows and dragging them into the brush to be eaten at leisure, the herdsmen of that seotion feit delicate about attneking him. Finally, poisonel honey was spread in his way, partaking of which, he gave up the ghost.

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Old News
Michigan Argus