Hench, Kendall, Slocumb and Polley1 have just made a preliminary report on the effects of an adrenal and a pituitary hormone on rheumatoid arthritis. In his Heberden Oration, delivered before the Heberden Society of London, Oct. 15, 1948,2 Hench stressed that rheumatoid arthritis is not necessarily a relentless, chronic, progressive condition which will never have a satisfactory, rapid method of control. He emphasized that even now rheumatoid arthritis is potentially rapidly reversible in any stage of the disease and therefore will eventually become rapidly reversible or rapidly controllable. The stimulus or stimuli necessary to set in motion the processes have been spontaneous, accidental or therapeutic. Chrysotherapy will induce striking remissions in only about 10 or 15 per cent of cases. From a combined program of gold, physical therapy, removal of foci of infection, rest and nutritious diet, striking results are promptly obtained in not more than 15 per