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ARTHRITIS RESEARCH

~ On the trail of a cure
for universal crippler

OF all the diseases that af-
filet mankind, none is more
common or painful than ar-
thritis. The following arti-
ele, reporting on progress
toward finding a cure, be-
gins a series on ‘The Great
Cripplers,”’

private arthritis experts to urge
the government to provide more
such centres.

Another is the increased un-

’ derstanding of the self-perpe-
tuating inflammatory process
that characterizes the rheuma-
toid type of arthritls.

LEARN ABOUT DRUGS

A third results from new in-
sights into how drugs work in
inflamed arthritic joints.

Early, encouraging results
have been achieved with several
new experimental drugs includ-
ing two, histidine and cyclophos-
phamide.

Only a few doctors so far

. have tested histidine, a dupli-
cate of an amino acid occurring —
in human and animal protein,
bul ane researcher indicates it
could have safety advantages.

Dr. Donald A. Gerber of New
York’s Downstate Medical
Centre said he has treated 70
rheumatoid arthritics with histi-
dine—almost all of them far ad-
vanced cases, and has achieved
encouraging, though still-tenta-
tive, results with no adverse
side effects. ;

Cyclophosphamide, previously
used against Leukemia and cer-
tain other forms of cancer, ap-
pears lo have a- unique bone-
protecting action in arthritis
cases, but can produce serious
side effects.

The fourth facior are surgical
developments that Arthritis
Foundation experts say were
undreamed of a few years ago.

One of the latest techniques
invalves use of silicone rubber
implants as substitutes for dis-
eased finger joints.

Dr. Alfred B. Swanson of
Blodgett Memorial Hospital in
Grand Rapids, Mich,, has re-
ported the technique enabled a
secretary with increasingly
crippled fingers to return to an
80-word-a-minute pace at a
typewriter,

in the still controversial field
of hip-joint replacement by
metal and- plastic ball-and-
socket substitutes, researchers
at the University of California
at Los Angeles are experiment-
ing with-a relatively new mate-
rial, pyrolytic carbon,

The material first was used in
the nose cones of space rockets
to profect them from the wear

By FRANK CAREY

NEW YORK (AP) — Arthritis
defarms limbs, inflames joints,
inflicts pain and has done so be-
yond history's annals. It bedev-
iled cavemen and even the dino-
saurs they fought.

But almost overnight, to quote
one authority, there’s optimism,
“a sense of being at long last on
the trail to the answers," ;

An answer would be welcome.
Of all man's great cripplers—
cerebral palsy, cerebral stroke,
muscular dystrophy, multiple
sclerosis—arthrilis 1s the most
universal.

It affects 50 million people in
the U.S. to some degree. About
17 million require medical at-
tention; nearly 3.5 million are,
disabled. Arthritis’ cost to the
national economy is $3.6 billion
annually in lost wages and med-
ical expenses.

And Dr. William E. Reynolds,
director of medical and scien-
tific affairs for the Arthritis
Foundation, chief voluntary ar-
thritis organization, Says:

“Efforts by scientists and doc-
tors to find the answer to the
arthritis riddle have seemed for
years to limp along discourag-
ingly on dead centre. But now
—and it seems to have hap-
pened almost overnight—most
of the authorities in the arthritis
field are feeling new optimism,
a sense of being at long last on
the trail to the answer.”

Much of the optimism centres
on newly envisioned possibilities
of unveiling, perhaps by 1980,
the cause of rheumatoid arthri-
tis. The most dangerous, de-
structive and disabling form of
the disease, it* afflicts at least
five million people in the U.S.

The optimism is based on
signs rheumatoid arthritis may
be due to:

~A_ still unidentified, slow-
acting virus.

—A disturbance of the body’s
normal immunity mechanism so
that a person becomes danger-
ously allergic to his own tissue.

—A combinidtion sf the twa. :

Further optimism ‘about ‘help-
ing arthritis sufferers is based
on four factors.

One is the consistent suc-
cesses at special arthritis clin-
ics in controlling rheumatoid ar-
thritis with conventional drugs,
notably aspirin in doses up lo 15
tablets daily. This has prompted

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field and his UCLA. asscciates
believe they have developed an
improved, more anatomically
correct version of artificial hip
joints, already implanted in
thousands of arthritics, mostly
in Britain.

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