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Symptoms of Lyme disease were described in Europe a century ago, but it was not until 1975 that Rheumatologist Allen Steere, then at Yale, made sense of the malady. Steere investigated a group of children, in and around Lyme, Conn., who were suffering from a mysterious form of arthritis. He traced the outbreak to speck-size ticks of the genus Ixodes, carried mainly by mice and deer. In 1982 federal researchers isolated the culprit from the tick: a corkscrew-shaped bacterium, or spirochete, similar to the one that causes syphilis...
...thought she had lifted something too heavy for her during the family's move from South Carolina to New York. But months later, the pain was still getting worse. "Oh, Mama, "her two children would say, "try to forget it." She went to two orthopedic surgeons and a rheumatologist. No one could find anything wrong. "If you get out and run, you'll feel so much better," her husband suggested. But she knew she was unable to run. She began to believe she was making up the pain. "You want to hide your face. Everybody gets tired...
Tracing McIlroy's hospital visits was obviously a labor of love for Neurologist C.A. Pallis of Hammersmith Hospital and Rheumatologist A.N. Bamji of Middlesex Hospital. In their report to the British Medical Journal, they meticulously listed the 22 surnames and eight first names used in various combinations by Mcllroy in registering at different hospitals. (Mcllroy was identified by the description in clinical records of his scars and other physical characteristics.) The names of all the hospitals and the number of admittances to each were also faithfully recorded...
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...