Word: gout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pituitary gland. Then, with a pair of tweezers, she removes the front half of the gland and drops it into a container of Dry Ice. That is the first step in the production of ACTH, the new wonder drug which may ultimately save millions from the ravages of arthritis, gout, rheumatic fever and kindred ills (TIME...
...supply, said Mote. If the complex structure of the ACTH molecule can be determined, he hopes to be able to stop making it in minute quantities from hogs' heads, and start to synthesize it by the hogshead. Until then, the millions of sarthritics and the countless sufferers from gout and a dozen other diseases must live in hope...
From these, long-accepted opinions many modern physicians dissent. Manhattan Allergist Joseph Harkavy of Mt. Sinai Hospital goes a step farther. Gout is not necessarily due to rich food & drink, he thinks; it may be due to something that gets into noses as well as into gullets...
...Gout, Dr. Harkavy announced last week in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may be set off by an allergy. Starting out three years ago to find out what causes gout, Dr. Harkavy noticed that it attacks its victims most frequently in the spring and fall. He thinks he has found one of the answers in pollen from grass and trees in the spring, from ragweed in the fall. Pollen, he says, can be the trigger that sets off a series of reactions that wind up as a pain...
...Harkavy theory has worked out in three cases so far. Two men and a woman who had attacks of gout in the spring or fall were found to be sensitive to pollens, as well as to certain foods. Harkavy brought on attacks by injecting the pollens. When they were immunized against the pollens, and avoided the troubling foods, two of the patients were free of gout. The classical remedy-colchicine-gives relief from pain. But the trick is to find out what the victim is allergic to, says Harkavy. It might be the grapes of the rich...