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Corticotrophic Hormone in the Treatment of Involutional Melancholia with Hypopituitarism and Pituitary Cachexia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. E. Hemphill
Affiliation:
From Bristol Mental Hospital and the Endocrinological Department of the Burden Neurological Institute
Max Reiss
Affiliation:
From Bristol Mental Hospital and the Endocrinological Department of the Burden Neurological Institute

Extract

During the past three years some clinical applications of corticotrophic hormone have been studied, and in this paper is described a form of involutional melancholia in which hypopituitarism and secondary hypoadrenalism are factors. Nine such cases were treated with corticotrophic hormone; in addition two cases of pituitary cachexia in young women were similarly treated.

Type
Part II.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1942 

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