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and when they're not used in too great doses they are incredibly useful in the treatment of the disease, and the treatment of 40 other kinds of disease conditions, including informations of the eye, and various allergies, and a whole host of other things.

I was present when they announced it at a meeting of, I think, the Rheumatism Council, and I've never seen anything so dramatic in my life as the pictures of the people treated before and after treatment. It was breathtaking.

These drugs have been purified now, have they not? The side effects are not as great...

Oh, yes. Well, there are analogs of cortisone which bring less of the side effects, which was largely a water retention problem, and consequently people got fat if given too much of it over a long period of time. But many people really just couldn't survive without it. I have a sister-in-law who has a type of arthritis and who was in agony before the use of it. I suggested the use of it to her doctor, who it seemed to me should have known about it as much as I did, but he didn't, and she told me that she literally didn't want to go on living if she could not take it.

Was not gold in conjunction with it also?

Gold was used, too, but gold was much less specific and much less dramatic in its effectiveness.

I was interested in the establishment of a lay organization