Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Prolonged Cortisone Administration

Abstract

After three years' experience at the West London Hos- pital in the treatment of a series of cases of rheumatoid arthritis with cortisone, we feel that it may be of interest to summarize our results to date. In a previous publica- tion (Copeman et al., 1950) we reported a short study of .the effect of cortisone and other steroids in rheuma- toid arthritis, and described certain methods for clini- cal assessment. We later published a longer study of the effects of continuous cortisone administration in the same disease (Copeman et al., 1952). The present paper is a continuation of those studies.