Sam Colt died of what?

jtcarm · Feb 7, 2015

I read his wiki page out of curiosity, which says he died of... gout?

Samuel Colt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now I've had gout attacks & they hurt like blazes, but I never heard of anyone dying from it. I could see complications like kidney failure, maybe. No doubt Sam's love of the high life meant high-risk for gout & heart disease.

Winfield Scott was said to have had such severe gout late in life (as Army Chief of Staff) as to need near constant icing of his feet. Old Chapultepec apparently didn't shy away from the Washington dinners & weighed in over 300 lbs.

JayFramer · Feb 8, 2015

One of my kind said the gout hurt so bad he couldn't have the fan on in the room, less the air blow on his toe and make it hurt so bad.

I hope I never get it!

Smoke · Feb 8, 2015

I looked it up and Gout itself won’t kill l you but it apparently presents in conjunction with other diseases (Diabetes, High blood pressure, High cholesterol and morbid obesity) that will kill you

Texas Star · Feb 8, 2015

I always read that he died from overwork which caused him to collapse and die. I think this was in 1862.

Smoke · Feb 8, 2015

Texas Star said:
I always read that he died from overwork which caused him to collapse and die. I think this was in 1862.

That sounds like the description of a massive heart attack

fisco · Feb 8, 2015

I take Black cherry concentrate capsules or juice when my gout comes on. In a day or two the gout is gone. It neutralizes the acid that causes gout. I don't know why, but it has worked for me.

chief38 · Feb 8, 2015

He died from a broken main spring of course........

jack the toad · Feb 8, 2015

chief38 said:
He died from a broken main spring of course........

That sounds better than gout.
I've heard that about Colts.

2152hq · Feb 8, 2015

Colt was a non stop workaholic,,by the descriptions written of him in that time. A 'Type A' perhaps,,always on the move, sleep was a waste of time. Always more to do than time allowed.Building his business was everything.

From a description of his final 4 or 5 days written by his wife, it sounds like Sam'l was suffering from perhaps what we'd call dementia today.
Not knowing and they didn't say what if any 'treatments' were given for ailments, real or imagined at the time, you can only guess at what substances may have been ingested long and short term.
Medicines then thought to be a miracle cure are now known to be at best nothing at all or at their worst a death sentence in themselves.

I did read that he had rheumatic fever as a kid.
No doctor here,not trying to play one, but I think r/fever can cause several different heart problems later down the line in life (among other ailments).
That couldn't have been good for someone unwilling to slow their pace down as they got older.

Aticus · Feb 8, 2015

Hey if the internet says he died of gout then he died of gout! Remember, if it's on the net it has to be true!

Smoke · Feb 8, 2015

Pecos Bill said:
Hey if the internet says he died of gout then he died of gout! Remember, if it's on the net it has to be true!

Abraham Lincoln once said “Y

u can’t believe everything y

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n the web.”

vigil617 · Feb 8, 2015

Thank God for allopurinol, is the only good thing I can say about gout.

mc5aw · Feb 8, 2015

I heard old Sam died from the common colt ...

Maddog 521 · Feb 8, 2015

mc5aw said:
I heard old Sam died from the common colt ...

Now I've heard it all.

JSR III · Feb 8, 2015

Gout is merely what the family said to cover the real truth. Sam Colt died in 1862 with the invention of the Model 2 Army by Smith and Wesson.

Step N. Mud · Feb 8, 2015

was this something Brian Williams reported?

Biginge · Feb 8, 2015

We all know his cylinder turned backwards. Could that perhaps be the cause?

Wyatt Burp · Feb 8, 2015

The truth is, an early member of the Uberti family came to the U.S. and poisoned Sam Colt because he was about to sue the Uberti family over patent infringements. But that Uberti guy was killed in the sabotage fire of the Colt plant. And because he was the only one with knowledge of the Uberti gun designs, they never came to fruition. Only much later in the 1970s did a member of the Uberti family find the old notes of his dead ancestor and then built copies of Colt designs. The patents had since expired and now it was legal and the rest is history.
Brian Williams told me all this and I believe him.

Vulcan Bob · Feb 8, 2015

Actually it was a bad case of Smith and Wessonitis and he lost the will to live. Sorry but I couldn't help it, didn't really mean to disrespect Sam!

Warren Sear · Feb 8, 2015

jtcarm said:
...Winfield Scott was said to have had such severe gout late in life (as Army Chief of Staff) as to need near constant icing of his feet...

Applying ice is probably about the worst thing you can do for a gout attack.

A few doses of indomethacin does the job for me in about 12 hours.

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