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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...
...world's first true wonder drug, and though it cures nothing, it is still the best palliative for an astonishing variety of ills, ranging from the common cold to the crippling deformity of rheumatoid arthritis. After 65 years of high-pressure research, surprisingly little is known about how aspirin works, but one thing is comfortingly certain: at about half a cent a tablet it is the world's cheapest drug...
...massage, Dr. Grant points out, should not be tried in such joint disorders as rheumatoid arthritis, which are known to be eased by heat and aggravated by cold. But for routine strains, sprains, bruises and Charley horses, he finds chilling to the point of numbness the most effective treatment yet devised. And even though patients may complain at first of its discomfort, they usually feel so much better after the treatment that they go home and do it for themselves...