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2007-01-27 22:19:54 · 4 answers · asked by ♥ 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
John Kennedy had Addison's disease (a withering of the adrenal glands), which was a terminal disease until maintenance treatment was discovered in 1940. That year, before Kennedy knew he had the illness, a British doctor discovered that it could be treated with cortisone, which would replace adrenaline... The cortisone was extremely expensive at the beginning, and the Kennedys kept quantities of the drug in safety deposit boxes around the world. Until artificial cortisone was developed years later, only a rich person could survive on the regime that JFK did -- day by day for the rest of his life.
2007-01-27 22:28:16 · answer #1 · answered by phedrekushiel 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Addison
2007-01-28 06:32:47 · answer #2 · answered by Dawn Treader 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Addison's disease
2007-01-28 06:28:40 · answer #3 · answered by Taiwan90851 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Addison's disease, an insufficiency of adrenogenic hormones
2007-01-28 06:33:42 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋