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Two old gouty men dancing with bandaged legs, an old nurse is holding their crutches, behind her is a gleeful doctor. Coloured aquatint, 1801. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The gouty man on the left says: "Come let us dance about, burn the crutches, hang the gout, now for love's sweet revel rout, we'll kiss the lasses round, sport and play - night and day, heedless what the grave ones say; cheery, merry, lie down derry! Let love and wine abound!" The other replies: "Bravo! Bravo! Doctor! Confusion to crutches, flannel, water gruel and old nurses!!"
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