Word: rheumatoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just another liquid solvent used in industry. Then University of Oregon researchers reported that DMSO had varied medicinal properties-that, in fact, it was a wonder drug. Daubed on the skin, they said, it soothed not only the superficial pain of burns, but also the deep pain of crippling rheumatoid arthritis. It helped burns and wounds to heal faster; it eased itching-and cured athlete's foot...
...treatment for advanced rheumatoid arthritis, which affects the entire body, DMSO alone is no better than present drugs, but some rheumatologists believe it helps markedly in acute flare-ups in the earlier stages of the disease...
Died. Dr. Philip Showalter Hench, 69, longtime (31 years) chief rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic, who in the late 1940s first used the wonder hormones cortisone and ACTH, administering them to rheumatoid arthritics with such spectacular results (one woman left her hospital bed to go on a shopping spree) that he won the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine, sharing it with two biochemists who had isolated the hormones; of pneumonia and diabetic coma; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica...
This arcane process of "auto-allergy" may be an important factor in many cases of anemia, in rheumatoid arthritis and myasthenia gravis, and in kidney and thyroid diseases. Last week, at the second of two Manhattan conferences on what many doctors prefer to call "autoimmune disease," researchers added impressive evidence on two recent additions to the catalogue of such ills: ulcerative colitis and pernicious anemia...
...week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication among adults: pain in the joints, sometimes so severe that it is compared with that of rheumatoid arthritis, though it lasts only three to seven days...