Gouty patients are , generally , either old men , or men who have so worn themselves out in youth as to have brought on a premature old age -- of such dissolute habits none being more common than the premature and excessive indulgence in venery , and the like exhausting passions .
Gouty patients are , generally , either old men , or men who have so worn themselves out in youth as to have brought on a premature old age - of such dissolute habits none being more common than the premature and excessive indulgence in venery , and the like exhausting passions .