NEW TREATMENT FOR ARTHRITIS
USE OF COMPOUND E (P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 24, It might be possible for Compound E, a new drug used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, to be made in New Zealand in abo'ut a year, said Mr John McM. Mennell, of Auckland, who returned by air yesterday after giving lectures in the United States. Dr. Mennell was at the Mayo clinic at the time when the new drug was being developed. There was no doubt about, the success of Compound E, he said, but the expense was at present a limiting factor to jts wide use. As far as was known at this stage, the drug had to be used constantly for - rheumatoid arthritis, but it was hoped later to find some way in which a cure could be effected and treatment stopped. It would probably he a year before it was manufactured commercially.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 268, 25 August 1949, Page 5
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