Word: oxytocin
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...diabetes insipidus (its diuretic-anti-diuretic effect). So there must be more than one hormone in the pituitary gland, decided Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke. Davis & Co.'s research laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation of pituitrin he has been able to separate two hormones−oxytocin useful in obstetrics. vasopressin useful in keeping up normal blood pressure during certain operations, useful too against diabetes insipidus. Dr. Kamm reasons that the danger from burns comes from the boiling of water out of the skin and flesh, and the failure of the body to replace that water effectively. His vasopressin...