Cortisone: the limits of a "miracle". (includes related articles)

Nutrition Health Review | September 22, 1991 | Copyright

One of the miracles recounted in the New Testament was that of the long-paralyzed man who was commanded to stand up and walk.

On the morning of September 21, 1948, an almost as miraculous event began to unfold. A 29-year-old woman, hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic for rheumatoid arthritis so severe that the painful joints of her legs had been locked into immobility, was injected with a tiny amount of an experimental new drug. Unlike the Biblical event, nothing happened immediately.

But here, too, faith intervented, faith on the part of a physician, Philip ...

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