Word: hydrazino
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...probably starve, "† ¶ Three doctors at the Cleveland Clinic think they have found the connection between nervous tension and high blood pressure. They found that brain and nerve tissue can produce a hormone-like substance which gets into the blood, raises its pressure. The antidote: a drug called hydrazino-phthalazine. The discovery also explains why surgery (cutting the sympathetic nerve) sometimes fails to relieve high blood pressure-it doesn't always get to the root of the trouble...
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