as has been described in cases of gout treated with pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone.9 The patient was again given 100 mg. of cortisone intramuscularly each day for three days; colchicine, 1/120 grain three times daily, was resumed in addition to the salicylates and low purine diet. Relief was just as immediate and dramatic as it was the first time that cortisone was administered, and it has continued so to date.
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