Word: pitressin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss of pain or even discomfort. Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers. Maintenance medication is simple: regular tablets of cortisone and thyroid hormone suffice for most; one in four also needs pitressin (to control water balance), which is taken like snuff...
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