#English #physician who pioneered in the #treatment of #endocrine disorders.
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He was one of the first to use #extractions of #animal #thyroid to relieve #myxedema (severe #hypothyroidism) in #humans.
In 1891, Murray cut the thyroid out of a #sheep, strained it through a handkerchief and prepared #emulsions of dried sheep thyroid in glycerine.
Despite being scoffed at by his colleagues, when he injected the #thyroidextract into a patient with myxedema (the common form of hypothyroidism), he was completely #successful on his first such attempt with the treatment.
With continued use of thyroid extract, the patient lived in good health for over twenty-eight years after she had reached an advanced stage of myxoedema.
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