The Hypophysis and Diabetes; A Small Archive of Eleven Inscribed Offprints and Three Letters

by Bernardo A. Houssay

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First edition

1930-1959. First Edition. Houssay received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar, a finding that fundamentally revised the prevailing understanding of diabetes as a disease of the pancreas alone. Before Houssay’s work, diabetes was understood principally in terms of pancreatic failure and insulin deficiency. What Houssay

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