Word: rheumatoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muscles and related structures. In six, arthritis (inflammation of the joints) is a symptom. The seventh classification, "nonarticular" (not involving the joints), is a catchall for many of the commonest forms. Of the seven, osteoarthritis and nonarticular rheumatism are the commonest (between them, more than 80% of all cases). Rheumatoid arthritis (10% to 20%) is the most crippling. Many patients have more than one form...
...Rheumatoid Arthritis. Commonest and most crippling of the acute forms of rheumatism. Cause unknown, although some researchers suspect that (like rheumatic fever) it is the after effect of a streptococcal infection. May occur in childhood (when it is known as Still's disease) or late in life, but is commonest in the 305, when it strikes three times as many women as men. (Possibly related is rheumatoid spondylitis, or arthritis of the spine, which singles out young men.) Usually attacks virtually all joints in the limbs. Difficult to diagnose, but in 1930 Dr. Russell L. Cecil, now medical director...
...Eulogized, for two hours, one of its favorite members: Colorado's Eugene Millikin, who, pain-racked with rheumatoid arthritis, announced that he would not run for reelection. Quick-witted and penetrating despite the physical ailments that confine him to a wheelchair, Gene Millikin, 65, made his decision after meeting with two Colorado backers who gently assured him that his waning strength would certainly impede the predictably close senatorial race in Colorado...
...colleagues have isolated a highly potent fraction, "hypothalamic D," which puts the pituitary to work when the animal (or human) is faced by physical or mental stress. Also named the "ACTH-hypophysiotropic hormone," it can be injected to give the same results as a shot of ACTH, e.g., in rheumatoid arthritis, by a more natural method. ¶ A series of changes in liver function shortly before and after birth enables the newborn mammal (whether human or rat makes no difference) to withstand the shock of emergence into the world, said a team of Boston biochemists headed by Harvard...
With the rise of wonder drugs, the common aspirin might have been expected to suffer a decline. But instead, doctors say that use of aspirin is steadily on the rise (the U.S. alone consumes 42 million tablets a day). One of its chief uses: treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, one of the nation's commonest chronic illnesses...