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Arthritis of Rheumatic Fever. Now readily dealt with, in most cases, by prompt treatment of the rheumatic fever with aspirin and hormones of the cortisone family, and the use of penicillin to prevent recurrences. For all practical purposes: under control...
...there are probably other causes, especially in premature severe cases; 97% of persons over 60 have it, though most in such mild form that they have few symptoms. Occurs when bearing surfaces in joints lose their smooth mobility. Resulting handicap may be negligible or severe; it is rarely disabling. Aspirin helps to ease pain, as does heat (hot baths or heating pads); injection of hydrocortisone into a particular joint may give relief for months. A well-balanced, vitamin-rich diet is good for an oldster's general wellbeing, but has no direct relationship to the disease. Still incurable...
Nonarticular Rheumatism. A grab-bag category. Includes bursitis (inflammation of the sac that helps reduce friction around a joint), myositis (inflammation of muscle tissues), fibrositis (muscle inflammation extending to connective tissues), tenosynovitis (inflammation of a tendon sheath), and such oddities as psychogenic rheumatism. Treatment: aspirin, possibly combined with hormones such as cortisone, prednisone and prednisolone. Codeine helps kill the pain, and heat is helpful. In bursitis, surgery is sometimes used to scrape calcified deposits from the inside of a bursa. In psychogenic rheumatism no physical cause can be found for the patient's undeniable physical ills. Symptoms most often...
Physicians used to treat rheumatoid arthritis by guess and by God, gave aspirin by the carload to ease the pain of inflamed, swollen and exquisitely tender joints. In the 19305 it was found that, for no known reason, injections of certain gold salts brought the disease under control. Treatment was fraught with danger of damage to liver and kidneys. But the net effect was beneficial in perhaps 40% of cases...
...mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night he had chills and fever and diarrhea, so he took the following day off and went to see an osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst in his right groin. There was a slight lump there, too. Two days later, with Sakacs' symptoms getting worse, he was taken to Corona Naval Hospital southeast of Los Angeles...