Case number 33: About being a famous European and suffering from gout…..

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We can learn about details of his illness and complaints from the letters he wrote to his sister Mary of Hungary, widow of the Hungarian king and governess of the Spanish Netherlands.1 In 1532 he describes in one of these letters how he suffered from “attacks of gout”, for which he was treated at that moment in a spa resort near Regensburg, Germany. He wrote that the attacks started after he had fallen from his horse, and he attributed the gout to his fall. We learn that his doctors put him on a severe diet and prescribed purgatives, bed rest for 5 days, and application of warmth to his legs. In the same letter he asks his sister to send him the model of the chair that was used by a member of the general government of the Netherlands, who was also suffering from gout.

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