The Treatment of Raoul Dufy's Arthritis

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The medical story of Raoul Dufy represents one of those rare instances in which a medical advance is made at exactly the right time to salvage creative functioning in an important person and thereby enrich our heritage. For this and many other reasons we believe that Raoul Dufy's medical history should be published. One of the early patients treated for rheumatoid arthritis with adrenocorticotropic pituitary hormone (ACTH) and cortisone, Dufy had many of the complications that later deterred physicians from using these effective and powerful therapeutic agents. The benefits of the treatment were measurable through the quality and the amount . . .