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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

LONG, Joseph Abraham (1879 – 1953)

1879 – 1953

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1921 CE

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The effect of the anterior lobe administered intraperitoneally upon growth, maturity and oestrus cycles of the rat.

EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)
EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971) LONG, Joseph Abraham (1879 – 1953)

Evans and Long discovered the growth hormone of the anterior pituitary, showing that continued injections of an anterior pituitary extract produced an acceleration in the growth-rate of laboratory animals.