RARE \"Diuretic Drug Pioneer” Robert F Pitts Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963 For Sale

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RARE \"Diuretic Drug Pioneer” Robert F Pitts Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963:
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Up for sale a RARE "Diuretic Drugs" Robert F Pitts Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963. 

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Dr.

Robert F. Pitts, a physiologist who was internationally known for his studies

of the kidney and nervous system, died Monday at a nursing home in Live Oak,

Fla. Be was 68 and had been in poor health for several years. At the time of

his death, Dr, Pitts was a research professor of kidney medicine and physiology

at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Before he moved to Florida in

1974, Dr. Pitts was for 25 years the chairman of the department of Cornell

University Medical College in New York City. During these years, Dr. Pitts

earned worldwide reputation for studies that helped provide a fundamental

understanding of the way the kidneys excreted acidic wastes and thereby

maintained the body's delicate biochemical balance between acidic and alkaline

states. pplication of the information gained from research conducted by

Dr. Pitts and other scientists has led to standard therapies in the daily

practice of medicine. For example, principles learned from his type of research

are applied routinely after surgery when patients are fed salt water and other

intravenous fluids. Dr. Pitts also made fundamental contributions to medicine

with the understanding of the mechanisms of the excretion through the kidneys

of ammonia and amino acids. In addition Dr. Pitts pioneered in understanding the physiologic

action of diuretic drugs. Millions of people throughout the world with heart

disease, hypertension and other conditions use diuretic drugs to help their

kidneys get rid of large amounts of water that would otherwise accumulate in

the body. In virtually all these studies that

involved humans, Dr. Pitts carried on a medical tradition by doing the first

experiment on himself. “He always told students and other doctors that if you

think any experiment is ready to be tried on humans, you must be the first

subject, and he always did that himself,” Dr. David D. Thompson, the director

of Cornell's teaching facilities at New York Hospital, said. Dr. Thompson had

studied with Dr. Pitts for several years. When Dr. Pitts studied the action

of the earliest type of diuretic drugs—those containing mercury—he took the

injections administered by colleagues. Further, when he studied the effects of

a particular amino acid on the body's physiology, Dr. Pitts ingested the amino

acid and then collected his urine for the necessary measurements. Robert

Franklin Pitts was horn in Indiana in 1908. After graduation from Butler

University in 1929, Dr. Pitts earned a Ph.D. in zoology from Johns Hopkins in

1932 and went to New York University, where he worked with Dr. Homer W. Smith,

a world authority on kidney physiology. It was from Dr. Smith that Dr. Pitts

learned about the practice of self‐experimentation.

While teaching and doing physiologic research at N.Y.U., Dr. Pitts earned his

M.D. degree in 1938. He became a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and then went to

the Neurological Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago and to the

University of Pennsylvania. During this period of his life, Dr. Pitts gained an

international reputation for his fundamental studies on the brain's role in

controlling breathing. Through studies on cats, Dr. Pitts identified the

neurological pathways that controlled respiration. After World War II, Dr.

Pitts went to Syracuse University to head the department of physiology. He

returned to New York in 1950 to head Cornell's physiology department. Dr. Pitts

was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American

College of Physicians, and active in other scientific organizations. Of his

many awards, his friends said he was particularly proud of being the first

recipient of the teaching award of the Association of Chairmen of Departments

of Physiology. Dr. Pitts wrote a textbook on kidney physiology and edited

professional journals.

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