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 | | Now I mention this, because I've probably been walking around with the problem for many years and never knew it, principally because until yesterday I'd never had truly agonizing pain. |
 | | You may have thought gout was a disease of past centuries--something Henry the VIII had or that Dickens or Wilkie Collins may have written about, although I haven't a clue if either of them ever actually did. |
 | | The disease is caused by an excess of uric acid in the blood, crystals of which for some reason gather in the joint around the big toe--in my case the left--and cause truly wretched pain, sufficient to make it nearly impossible to walk. |
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