1 Labe C. Scheinberg, "Signs, Symptoms, and Course of the Disease," in Labe C. Scheinberg, M.D. ed., Multiple Sclerosis:  A Guide for Patients and Their Families (New York:  Raven Press, 1983), p. 37.

2 Multiple Sclerosis Research Reports I, no. 2 ( 1987): 6.

3 Mark Wayland, "But You Look So Good," Inside MS 1, no. 4 (Fall 1983): 17.

4 Scheinberg, Multiple Sclerosis, p. 42.

5 Ibid, pp. 31-32.

6 Therapeutic Claims in Multiple Sclerosis (New York: National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1986), p. 105.

7 "Drug Slows Mild Multiple Sclerosis," New York Times, 13 August 1987, p. A19; "Multiple Sclerosis Drug Promising, Researchers Say," The Washington Post, 13 August 1987, p. A23.

8 Other sources which have been useful in forming my understanding of MS include: Byron H. Waksman and William E. Reynolds, Research on Multiple Sclerosis (New York: National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1982); P.J. Vinken and G.W. Bruyn, eds., Handbook of Clinical Neurology, vol. 9 (New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1971); Douglas McAlpine, Charles E. Lumsden, and E.D. Acheson, Multiple Sclerosis: A Reappraisal, 2d ed. (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1972); Bryan Matthews, Multiple Sclerosis: The Facts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978); and J.F. Hallpike, C.W.M. Adams, and W.W. Tourtellotte, eds., Multiple Sclerosis, Pathology, Diagnosis and Management (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1983).