Word: mellitus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Dec. 18 medicine story "From the Discard" you state that diabetes and hardening of the arteries are generally encountered as complications of ACTH treatment. A temporary metabolic derangement resembling diabetes mellitus is occasionally (but by no means always) encountered following the administration of large amounts of ACTH, but the condition subsides when the hormone is stopped...