By Chris Faubel, MD –
- The discovery of the class of corticosteroid called glucocorticoids began in the 1920′s.
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- In the 1920’s, rheumatoid arthritis and other arthritidies were thought to have an infectious cause.
- By 1938, Dr. Philip Hench from the Mayo rheumatic disease service, noticed a 65yo doctor with arthritis that improved the day after becoming jaundiced.
- He later noted 31 other cases of joint pain resolving, to some extent, with pregnancy, infections, and post-surgically.
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