Word: rheumatoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before such potent hormones as cortisone and ACTH were discovered, doctors could offer little to victims of rheumatoid arthritis except aspirin-simply, they thought, to ease the pain. But just when cortisone became generally available, researchers made a surprising discovery: far from being a mere painkiller, aspirin has the biological power (like ACTH, but to a lesser degree) of stimulating the adrenal glands to produce their cortisone-like hormones. Still, U.S. doctors took it for granted that cortisone itself must be better, went on prescribing it lavishly (daily cost to U.S. patient...
...Among the common noncancerous conditions that also cause a Penn test to show up positive are active rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, cirrhosis of the liver, fever, pregnancy and hormone treatments...
...child may get stomach cramps before a school examination. A housewife develops rheumatoid arthritis worrying over her relationship with her husband. A soldier cracks under the strain of waiting for battle. All these are stress diseases. So, in various cases, are asthma, duodenal ulcers, hypertension, some heart diseases and ulcerative colitis. "Some," says Surgeon Ogilvie, "would add diabetes in younger many men and women have been freed from the fetters of anxiety and self-absorption...
...Although there is no known cure for rheumatoid arthritis, the disease often burns itself out in time. For patients trying to keep in good shape during the long, painful siege, the University of Iowa's Dr. William D. Paul had some homely hints: for fingers and wrists, wash dishes; for fingers alone, milk cows; for toes and ankles, pick up marbles with the toes; for back and abdomen, try gardening. The very weary, said Dr. Paul, could give hips and knees a stiff workout in a rocking chair...
Specialists in rheumatic diseases from 35 countries met in Geneva last week; as might be expected, much of the talk centered on progress made in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis...