Word: rheumatoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bought him in 1951 for "more than $10,000 and less than $25,000," and trucked him from Texas to North Carolina. But Larry began showing signs of listlessness and lameness in one leg. Leach's veterinarian, Dr. James T. Dixon, diagnosed Larry's ills as rheumatoid arthritis. While Larry lost weight-and his interest in heifers-Leach persuaded a friend at Merck & Co., Inc. to send him thirty-six 500-mg. bottles of cortisone...
...some good news from Armour Laboratories last week. Highly purified "HP ACTHAR Gel" brings quicker relief than older forms of the hormone, can be injected more easily, and will cost less. Typical five-day asthma treatment will drop from $31.25 to $12; the 21-day dosage for acute early rheumatoid arthritis from...
...Philip Hench made his first report on the Merck product, and a new era in medicine opened. Kendall and Hench shared a Nobel Prize for their part in the work: for the first time in his long rheumatic history, man could practically eliminate the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis...
Unlike cortisone, phenylbutazone is not a hormone, and it does not seem to arrest the disease process in arthritis. But it has one huge advantage over ACTH and cortisone: its benefits are not limited to the 10% of arthritis sufferers who have the rheumatoid form of the disease. Instead, it seems to work equally well in the far commoner osteoarthritis (also called degenerative arthritis), which usually comes with old age, and in the crippling arthritis of the spine...
...company with his colleagues, Dr. Tufts refined from placenta blood some serum which he called PBS, and injected 20 cc. into the arm of a patient who had suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis for more than ten years. After three injections she reported, "My pain and swelling began to disappear and I could notice the lump on my wrist start to go down . . . It's wonderful...