Possible Clues:

• Oxygen trapped in intestine? This can be extremely painful
• Foot problem
• Disease with painful swelling especially of the big toe and foot
• Disease picked up round middle of January
• Disease inflaming the big toe
• Port may cause it, but never gin, it seems
• Painful ailment, often of the foot
• Painful inflammation of the big toe
• Complaint each French person may have?
• Joint woe that afflicted Benjamin Franklin