A specific constitutional disease occurring in paroxysms, usually hereditary and in male subjects; characterized by painful inflammation of the smaller joints, esp. that of the great toe, and the deposition of sodium urate in the form of chalk-stones; it often spreads to the larger joints and the internal organs. [OED]
Gout is often represented as a disease suffered by the rich and casued by overindulgence in food and alcohol especially port wine [CPB]

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