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Patients were given adreno-corticotropic hormone-ACTH and injections of epinephrine. In those with a normally functioning pituitary and adrenal cortex, one subcutaneous injection of epinephrine (0.3mg) was followed by a 50 percent fall in the level of circulating eosinophils it was reported...
...After Hench and Kendall's discoveries at the Mayo Clinic that Compound E was effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, studies were made of the prolonged effect of ACTH on rheumatoid arthritis patients," Dr. Thorn said...
...isolated it from the pituitary glands of freshly killed sheep. Since other researchers were looking for it, too, Dr. Li says: "I was damn lucky. I hit on the right method." With the same sort of "luck," he was also the first to isolate four other hormones, including ACTH. More work will have to be done on FSH before it can be tried on humans as a cure for some forms of infertility...
...ACTH. The results were dramatic but, like the results of earlier work, they were fleeting. Fifteen patients, some unable to walk, showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was barely able to get out of bed. By the third day she was walking with only a slight limp; a week later, pain and muscular stiffness had almost disappeared. But improvement ended when the drug was stopped. After varying periods without the drug, the patients were back where they started. Two other...