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Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.

A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.

A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.

A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.

A gouty man startled by death; represented as a skeletal figure wielding an arrow. Mezzotint, 1794.

A gouty man who is drinking wine and playing the cello; the pain is represented by a devil burning his foot. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.

A gouty man surrounded by horse-riding accoutrements. Coloured engraving by Maddox after H.W. Bunbury.

A disgruntled gouty man with all limbs bandaged, a table covered in medicine bottles is next to him. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.

M0010383: "Comfort in the Gout", Thomas Rowlandson, 1785

On gout : its history, its causes, and its cure / by William Gairdner.

A treatise upon gravel and upon gout : in which their sources and connection are ascertained : with an examination of Dr. Austin's theory of stone, and other critical remarks. A dissertation on the bile and its concretions, and an enquiry into the operation of solvents / by Murray Forbes, member of the Surgeon's Company.

A gouty patient having his pulse taken by a doctor; representing George IV's opposition to Catholic emancipation, and Wellington's support of it. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1829.

Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ...

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M0010383: "Comfort in the Gout", Thomas Rowlandson, 1785

On gout : its history, its causes, and its cure / by William Gairdner.

A gouty patient having his pulse taken by a doctor; representing George IV's opposition to Catholic emancipation, and Wellington's support of it. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1829.

Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ...