Word: rheumatoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lolling. Odium, who lives on a ranch at Indio, Calif., spends long hours in his swimming pool to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. A long telephone extension permits him to conduct business right from the pool. From there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year...
...victims of rheumatoid arthritis impatiently awaiting a boost in the tiny supply of cortisone, there was another slender ray of hope this week. While it might take years to make the hormone from seeds of the over-trumpeted vine Strophanthus sarmentosus (TIME, Aug. 29), a more abundant and more accessible plant has been named as a source of the raw material...
...slave hormones whose flow can be speeded by ACTH is cortisone, formerly known as Compound E (TIME, June 13). Like its master, cortisone almost always relieves the symptoms of crippling rheumatoid arthritis in a few injections, but, again like its master, it must be used continuously or the condition recurs...
Pointing out that in recent years there has been increasing evidence that the adrenal cortical hormones exert marked influence on many metabolic processes, Dr. Thorn said that this group had attempted to determine the effects on rheumatoid arthritis of various measures designed to stimulate the pituitary-adrenal system...
...After Hench and Kendall's discoveries at the Mayo Clinic that Compound E was effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, studies were made of the prolonged effect of ACTH on rheumatoid arthritis patients," Dr. Thorn said...