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turn, led to a technique for treating persons suffering from high blood pressure. Dr. Watt also told how a reduction is being made in -the number of young persons who contract rheumatic heart disease. Heart Institute research showed that there were anti-bodies in the blood of persons subject to this form of heart ailment which could be detected by tests before serious damage was done and this permitted production of this substance in the blood followed streptococcal infections and that if the first infection was treated with penicillin and the sulpha drugs it could be checked without leading to the heart damage. Ip one Ohio _community selected for a wide— spread test, Dr. Watt said this preventative program has produced dramatic results.
At the same session of our committee, Dr. James A. Shannon, Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health, told us of advances made in the use of . Cortisone and ATCH for treatment of crippling arthritis. We were shown pictures of a ten year ■old girl, already deformed and practically helpless, who completely recovered after eighteen months of the drug treatment and who has atpw gone for three years without ■a recurrence of the disease and Is. able to go to school and le$d a normal life. I questioned Dr. Shannon closely as to the dangers of using these drugs and was told that there still is a shortage of
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