Medical treatments for gout ranged from acupuncture in ancient China to consuming autumn crocuses in the Byzantine Empire. But the strangest remedy for gout appeared in a 1518 medical book. Physician Lorenz Fries suggested a peculiar recipe: "Roast a fat old goose and stuff with chopped kittens, lard, incense, wax, and flour of rye. This must all be eaten, and the dripping applied to the painful joints."


someone should tell stevey