Word: lupus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many as 10% of patients with high blood pressure, after intensive treatment for several months with hydralazine (trade name: Apresoline), develop symptoms resembling those of rheumatoid arthritis or disseminated lupus erythematosus; stubborn cases may need treatment with ACTH or cortisone-type hormones-which can also be dangerous (see below...
...pinpricks are felt, but Belle is the real victim. She falls prey to a peculiarly horrifying variety of lupus, a disease that leaves her skin pocked and blotched. Nature turns the tables on 18-year-old Isa, too. As the mother fails, the daughter blooms. From Isa's great hate for Maurice blossoms, first, interest, and next, fascination. One midnight, when the slip-clad girl goes downstairs to fasten a banging door, she is waylaid by the panther-ishly urgent lawyer. Next morning she tries in vain to scare up her conscience: "You have a lover. You slept with...
...doctors also disagreed about using pregnenolone against other ailments. Some reported dramatic results with acute lupus, a usually fatal disease of unknown cause. Philadelphia's Dr. Richard Smith said that pregnenolone helped many patients suffering from fibrositis (stiff muscles) or bursitis...