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THE promising results of the treatment of lupus by means of large doses of calciferol are discussed in an annotation in the Lancet (23, Jan. 5, 1946). Dr. G. B. Dowling and Dr. E. W. Prosser Thomas have so far treated in this way thirty-eight subjects suffering from lupus, and sixteen of them have been followed up for more than a year. Dr. Dowling concludes that all of them have improved, and the lesions of twelve seem to have disappeared entirely. One subject has experienced no return of the disease during the eighteen months since the treatment was discontinued. Most of the subjects had made poor progress under the influence of other remedies. The
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Treatment of Lupus with Calciferol. Nature 157, 260 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157260b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157260b0