Contents 
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