UNUSUAL AND MEMORABLE

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

A Boonen¹, Sj van der Linden²

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht and Caphri Research Institute, The Netherlands
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht and Caphri Research Institute, The Netherlands

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Dr A Boonen
aboo@sint.azm.nl

Keywords: Charles V; gout; history

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The Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, the official EULAR journal, appreciates the European dimension of rheumatology. One of the people who had an important role in the old continent was Charles V (Ghent, Flanders 1500, + San Yuste, Spain 1558). Although his policy did not always favour a unified Europe, the history of his life and illnesses are closely linked with many European countries.

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 . . . [Full text of this article]

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