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...Among the causes of pain in rheumatoid arthritis are inflammation of the synovium (the membrane lining the joint capsule) and subsequent erosion of the enclosed cartilage and bone. Doctors generally prescribe painkillers and other anti-inflammatory drugs including common aspirin. But according to Dr. Alan Wilde of the Cleveland Clinic, early surgery may provide more permanent relief and slow the progress of the disease as well. Wilde told a scientific session of the Arthritis foundation that he had performed synovectomies on 39 patients, delicately removing the inflamed tissue from a total of 121 finger joints. Most of the patients experienced...
...departure from the familiar windup and "automatic" watches. Gone are the mainsprings and most of the gears and cogs that keep a watch ticking. In their place is a single tiny quartz bar that vibrates when charged by electricity from a mercury-oxide battery the size of an aspirin tablet. Ground to the proper thickness, quartz has the inherent capability of vibrating at a precise and predictable rate-32,769 times per second in the case of the Bulova Accuquartz...
...increased ambulance service and emergency supplies of drugs, cots, chairs, tables, tents, huts, trailers and walkie-talkies. One survival-minded citizens' group, The Miami Snowplow Co., requested $1.7 million worth of canned beef stew, a $1,632 stockpile of disposable diapers and bottles, 1,000 containers of aspirin, 500 instant ice packs and one medium-transport helicopter-but failed to survive as an organization through lack of support. The scene is Miami Beach, and the preparations are not for a hurricane but for those grand old American blowouts, the Democratic and Republican national conventions...
Tension headaches, the product of anxiety and fatigue, are a common malady. The usual cure is rest and nonprescription aspirin-based analgesics (for which Americans now spend more than half a billion dollars a year) or sometimes tranquilizers. Somewhat different are headaches associated with depression, which can be manifestations of patients' hostility toward themselves. They sometimes respond to antidepressant drugs and psychiatric treatment...
...believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...