Gout and leprosy

Meaning

Gout and leprosy are the named examples in a report that the completed, more-than-perfect Stone heals every illness. The narrator attributes such expansive praise to what others have written, then withdraws from detailed medical discussion because he is not a physician. He leaves judgment to those who supposedly possess and know how to use it. These qualifications matter more than an isolated disease-list. The English “It is said” helps maintain the reported status of the claim. Neither the passage nor this lexical explanation verifies a cure or recommends treatment; the disease names show the breadth of the historical promise.