Word: lupus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Hospital, used the Dreyer treatment on human tuberculosis patients with " benefit obviously greater than from any other form of treatment in use." If the disease was not too far advanced, the patients improved in temperature and weight, tuberculous joints cleared up, tubercle glands in children diminished, ulcerations of lupus (a tuberculous skin disease) were healed. Dreyer and his colleagues caution against premature jubilations, but state that results so far are incontrovertible...