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J _j--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130. il ii i| think I'm curing them. li '! UKIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I: -------------------- I! The only reason I'm asking, Jerry Kane of Michigan seems to think that the use of cortisone may ledd to sporac- ! ic sclerosis; X don't know. !'i BY DOCTOR EARDX: 3 ------------------------- Well, I think it might easily be true, but' I I > think in the case of beryllium poisoning, you have- to 'sort ' ; ' * 1 of take the choice and play your cards as you go. |! BY DOCTOR VORWALD: J 1 ji ' Is that a general tendency in cortisone? j 3Y DOCTOR HARDY: I Yes, it's been my experience in talking with DocI tor Max-Michel, who has treated very many of these, that jou `may get brilliant results in treatenent of sarcoidosis with ACTH or cortisone, but as I pointed out in that swift-running survey summary, just given you, I have seen cases of sarcoi:! dosis that simply will not respond in any way to ACTH and 1! cortisone, and I have^seen - I have even seen cases recent- it | iy -- two are very fresh in my mind -- that have definitely I been made worse, and have proven this by pulmonary function studies and a clinical downhill course of obviously inerets- II ing replacement of the granular tissue. This I have not .i seen in beryllium poisoning except for my remarks that one j 1 or two cases I have watched appear to ba getting, fron tne -4 ^ SEVENTH SARANAC -0154