When Norman Cousins, the long-term editor-in-chief of the Saturday Review, was diagnosed with a severe collagen disorder-ankylosing spondylitis-at the age of 49, only about 0.2 % of the disease's victims saw their condition brought under control.
1915 年出生、曾擔任美國「週末評論」月刊總編輯的卡森斯，49 歲時被診斷出患有身體組織膠原蛋白出現異常的疾病，也就是現在熟知的「僵直性脊椎炎」，當時治癒的機會只有 0.2 %。