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sydenham · nuki-simkin-2006-history-of-gout

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sydenham
Assertion
Thomas Sydenham, himself disabled by gout, described a flare that wakes the patient around two in the morning with pain in the big toe that becomes so severe the patient cannot bear the weight of bedclothes.
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The patient goes to bed and sleeps quietly until about two in the morning when he is awakened by a pain which usually seizes the great toe ... so exquisitely painful as not to endure the weight of the clothes nor the shaking of the room from a person walking briskly therein.
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