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It seems likely that the word “gout” takes its origin from the Latin “gutta” denoting a drop, in which form the putative toxin was supposed to be deposited in an affected joint.
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Fassbender, H.G. (1975). Gout. In: Pathology of Rheumatic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09221-7_10
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