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...stage of exhaustion. This was what Dr. Selye had found in his rats in 1936, shown by enlarged and overactive adrenals, wasted thymus and bleeding ulcers. But exhaustion, the last phase, may produce many other "diseases of adaptation," notably some types of high blood pressure, several kidney diseases, rheumatoid and gouty arthritis...
...year had passed since the Mayo Clinic first announced the dramatic effects of treating rheumatoid arthritis sufferers with the hormones ACTH and cortisone (TIME, May 2, 1949). In that year, millions of pain-racked arthritics had clamored for the "new cure," or begged their doctors to tell them how soon they could expect relief and how much. Last week the answer was plain: they could expect nothing certain for a long, long time...
...fact, the uncounted, creaking legions of rheumatoid arthritis victims had nothing last week that they did not have last year-except more hope. They were not likely ever to get ACTH or cortisone for routine treatment. Now, as for years past, they would get bed rest, exercises, and aspirin to ease the pain...
...relieved," said Drs. Theron G. Randolph and John P. Rollins of Northwestern University. In asthma, the relief is short-lived, but some hay fever (ragweed) victims were sneeze-free for the season after a few shots of ACTH. ¶ The "collagen diseases" (involving the connective tissues) are most responsive. Rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, which first put ACTH in the headlines (TIME, May 2), are placed in this group by many authorities. Several others follow the same pattern of quick relief, quick relapse when treatment is stopped.¶ Swollen lymph glands and nodes shrink visibly; even lymphatic leukemia (blood cancer...
...been that liquid since September 1929, when Odium foresaw the crash and got out of the stock market. Last week, Odium wasn't worrying about another crash. He was relaxing in his heated swimming pool in Indio, Calif., treading water several times a day to help his rheumatoid arthritis and biding his time for another "special situation...