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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

PFIFFNER, Joseph John (1903 – 1975)

1903 – 1975

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1929 CE

#1149

The preparation of an active extract of the supra-renal cortex.

PFIFFNER, Joseph John (1903 – 1975) SWINGLE, Wilbur Willis (1891 – 1975)

First practical method of preparing an extract of the active agent of the adrenal cortical hormone. It was named cortin until it was recognized that there are several active agents in the secretion.

1932 CE

#3874

The adrenal cortical hormone.

PFIFFNER, Joseph John (1903 – 1975) SWINGLE, Wilbur Willis (1891 – 1975)

The cortical hormone prepared by Swingle and Pfiffner (“eschatin”) was found to be very effective in the treatment of Addison’s disease. Their first paper on the subject appeared in Science, 1930, 71…

1935 CE

#1152

Chemical studies on the adrenal cortex. II. Isolation of several physicologically inactive crystalline compounds from active extracts. III. Isolation of two new physiologically inactive compounds.

PFIFFNER, Joseph John (1903 – 1975) WINTERSTEINER, Oskar Paul (1898 – 1971)

Isolation of Compound F, identical with Kendall’s Compund E. See No. 1151.