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pituitary extract

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noun

  1. a preparation of the pituitary gland, used in medicine for the therapeutic effects of its hormones

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions.

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Scientific research into the pituitary was not pushed until the 1920s, when Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California caused rats to become giants by injecting them with crude pituitary extract.

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Dr. Adolph Edward Roome Jr., his father, corpulent Los Angeles physician, who wanted to administer pituitary extract to make his son stop growing.

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Long since decided that some doctors are good nurses, some good midwives, some good butchers: but few have any business in doing more than squirting pituitary extract in a to-be mother.

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He finds that pituitary extract "can cause dangerous rise of blood pressure."

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

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