Word: rheumatoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patients with rheumatoid arthritis put on iproniazid, 18 felt better and also had improvement that the doctors could verify; 14 simply felt better...
Foreign friends, fearing rheumatoid arthritis, began to organize a petition to Tito (sunbathing by the Adriatic) for an easing of Djilas' sentence. Yet such are the political advantages of being in Mitrovica, by this time a tradition in Yugoslav government, that Djilas himself, a firm believer in the historical process, was reported quite cheerful about his miserable condition, saying: "It proves to the Yugoslav people that I am not a Communist...
...then joined another Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
...novelist (for Hold Autumn in Your Hand, in 1941), who covered the North African campaign in World War II for The New Yorker, wrote 145 stories and articles for the Saturday Evening Post (including many of the "Cities of America" series and a description of his fight against crippling rheumatoid arthritis); when his unclad body was found in a tidal stream near his home, two months after he disappeared (police theorized that he drowned himself; he had told friends that he heard voices "telling him to dive into the river and swim and swim until he had reached the North...
...worldwide demand for the hormone is now so great that many manufacturers are turning to the far larger whale glands -the size of an egg. Melville's pelagic Cain now helps to supply doctors with a valued treatment for at least 30 diseases, from common and crippling rheumatoid arthritis to scleroderma...