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Henry VIII could have used an Ionic Foot Bath.


Anyone who’s learned about the former English King Henry, Eighth of his Name, has probably heard about his many dead, divorced, and decapitated wives. But they may not have heard that he had Gout. In the past, it was known as ‘the Disease of Kings’, because only people that could afford to drink wine and beer, eat shellfish and red meat, and not do a lot of exercise, were inclined to contract it.