Use of gold therapy in the rheumatoid type of arthritis with controls

Abstract

Of recent years there has boon an amount of literature indicating the favourable) effects of certain gold compounds in the rheumatoid type of arthritis. Our perusal of this literature has, however failed to reveal any systematic investigation carried out with adequate controls, which owing to the variable course of the disease and the tendency to neural cure is, we feel, essential if any satisfactory conclusion is to be reached.

We ourselves have, during; recent years, utilised gold therapy inn very large number of cases but are concerned in this work with only a limited number of the where it has been possible to prolong our observations over a period of time and make comparisons with control cases.