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walked, and had a normal life again. And his father and he were told about the use of cortisone by us, and it was made available to him much sooner than he otherwise would have gotten it.

Progress has been made in the field of arthritis in the last 10 years, but there's no final cure, and I think there will be no final cure until we have better means of comprehensive analyses of hormonal output, simple, cheap means of estimating a human being's total hormonal output, so that you'll have an index of people by various ages and sexes and you will see what the deficits are in connection with one disease as compared with another, hormonal deficits, because there's surely a hormonal deficit in arthritis otherwise it would not be so responsive to cortisone.

So, you envisage eventually a sort of a national testing of people.

Yes, I do envisage that, and I think it will happen. I've been very frustrated in getting methods developed; I'm more interested in this diagnostic area.

Butazolidin has had a favorable influence on the disease. Cortisone analogs are still the treatments for the severest types of arthritis.

In any case, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation and the National Institute for Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the U.S. Public Health Service, to each of which we gave an initial spark to set off their beginnings, are mechanisms whereby