TREATMENT OF ARTHRITIS WITH VITAMIN AND ENDOCRINE PREPARATIONS

Abstract

I doubt whether there is another disease for which so many different kinds of treatment have been suggested as for the various types of chronic arthritis. The etiology of some of the more common forms of arthritis is unknown, hence satisfactory and more especially "specific" treatment for these are not available. Many physicians consider nutritional deficiencies and metabolic and endocrine abnormalities to be primary or contributory causative factors for different rheumatic diseases, and on this basis, combined with empiricism, treatment employing the use of almost all the known vitamin and endocrine preparations has developed. Search for improved remedies is always commendable; it is lamentable, however, that frequently little or no careful investigation is made to prove the value of a new therapeutic agent before it is heralded as of great value or even a "cure." On this account, therefore, I shall now take stock of the situation concerning the various