Geek alert...... There'sa prescription for gout inscribed on the wall of Henutsen, a physician at the court of Pep II of Egypt's sixth dynasty. It goese as follows *as translated by H. Breasted in 1935) Return to the couch where thou fellest pain. Take the milk from a sheep, mix it with honey and the wax from the comb, add the foreskin of thy second sone, and drink, saying "I will be well in the sight of the hidden One". (Circumcision was practised off and on (sorry....!) during three thousand years in Egyptian history.