Therapeutic Value of Port
Port has been used in the past as a therapeutic agent. The British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger was given port for gout as a boy. He began at the age of 14 (1773) with a bottle a day according to J. Ehrman (1969): "The Younger Pitt".
However, it has been widely documented in the medical literature that alcohol consumption can trigger attacks of gout.
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