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==Gout in fiction==

* [[Benjamin Franklin]], who was afflicted with gout, wrote a fictionalized account of a conversation he had with a "Madam Gout," where they listed together all the reasons why he was afflicted, in the literary piece ''ConversationDialogue Between Franklin and The Gout'' [http://www.bartleby.com/109/3.html]

* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill (TV series)|King of the Hill]]'', [[Bobby Hill (King of the Hill)|Bobby Hill]] develops gout in the big toe as a result of eating [[chopped liver]] on a daily basis.

* In an episode of ''[[Lost In Space]]'', Will Robinson encounters Hamish Rhu-Glamis, a Scotsman executed in 1497, but who was suffering gout at the time of his death. Will's mother Maureen attempts to treat the gout when Hamish is made living again by passage through a space warp.