Hi. This is better than something I had been told vaguely before. [I looked up Wikipeadia and found this reference:

...Gout has, however, been known since antiquity. Historically, it has been referred to as "the king of diseases and the disease of kings"[8][61] or "rich man's disease".[62] The first documentation of the disease is from Egypt in 2,600 BC in a description of arthritis of the big toe. The Greek physician Hippocrates around 400 BC commented on it in his Aphorisms, noting its absence in eunuchs and premenopausal women.[59][63] Aulus Cornelius Celsus (30 AD) described the linkage with alcohol, later onset in women, and associated kidney problems...

Glad that is now cleared up ;-)