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Jan Morris on Cetinje: The Austere Mountain World of the Montenegrins
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There is only one proper way to go to Cetinje. You start at the
Gulf of Kotor, the spectacular mountain-ringed fjord that disrupts
the coastline of southern Yugoslavia near the Albanian frontier, and
you take the hair-raising spiral road, what used to be called the
Ladder of Cattaro, up what appears at first sight to be the sheer
face of a mountain-high, high up the formidable rock rampart that
rings the heart of Montenegro.
For many centuries people have come this way with trepidation:
on mules, frightened of bandits; on cavalry horses, terrified of
guerrillas; in troop carriers, wary of ...
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Gout risk and obesity.(Clinical report)
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; We know that weight is involved in gout, because serum uric acid levels are increased...real figures about weight and risks of gout. Study This was a prospective study of...health outcomes, and medical conditions. Gout diagnosis was determined every two years...
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`Gout' offers a rich subject for study
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; GOUT The Patrician Malady By Roy Porter and G...393 pp., illustrated, $35 "When I have gout, I feel as if I am walking on my eyeballs...outrageous upper-class overindulgence. Today gout is no longer class-bound, any more than...
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Gout, the Patrician Malady.(Review)
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; Gout, the Patrician Malady, by Roy Porter and...Oxford University Press, 1998, US $35. GOUT, as most sufferers would confirm, is an...at least, even without medication. Nor is gout a life-threatening condition. Indeed...
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Gout in 2006: the perfect storm.
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; ...Mechanistic and therapeutic advances in gout have been moving swiftly in the past decade...pertinent recent developments in understanding gout and in novel therapeutics for the disease...or IL-1[beta]. ********** Gout is a disease recognized since antiquity...
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When gout strikes
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; New Straits Times 05-15-2001 When gout strikes Edition: The City Advertiser; 2* Section: Health GOUT is a form of arthritis caused by an increased...affecting adult men. Over 95 per cent of gout sufferers are males over the age of 30...
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Hyperuricemia and gout: new insights into pathogenesis and treatment.(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
; ...at least a century that uric acid causes gout, we are now beginning to address the question...The history of our understanding of gout parallels the history of scientific knowledge. The first written reference to gout dates to 2600 BC, when Egyptians first...
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The glorification of gout in 16th- to 18th-century literature
Magazine article from: Canadian Medical Association. Journal
; Literary references to gout are a prime example of the insight into...currently in short supply, the merits of gout have been extolled over the centuries by physicians and laypersons. In the past, gout was regarded as a badge of nobility...
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Getting to know gout.
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; Say the word "gout" and some people will think of a bloated...conventional image. We know, for example, that gout doesn't afflict only the privileged classes...About 90 percent of people afflicted with gout are men over 40. * Obesity in general...
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Millions of People With Gout Are Suffering Needlessly.
PR Newswire
; ...PRNewswire/ -- Despite the fact that gout has been well understood for many decades...are suffering needlessly. For years, gout was considered by most doctors to be a...and with it, the quality of care for gout sufferers. Gout is caused by a buildup...
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