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...colors its victims anywhere from a light yellow to a deep brown and even black, has been treated successfully. Announcement of that important fact came last week from the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., where Professor Wilbur Willis Swingle of Princeton and Joseph John Pfiffner developed the medicine. It is a purified extract, a hormone, of the suprarenal glands.* Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic have used the extract on some 30 cases of Addison's disease. One case reacted favorably in 48 hours. Thomas Addison (1793-1860), English physician, traced this disease named...
...Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit manufacturing druggists, merit some credit for this discovery. Dr. Pfiffner worked for them as a research chemist. His superior was Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke, Davis' Chemical Research Laboratory. Dr. Kamm isolated two hormones of another ductless gland, the pituitary (TIME...