The possibility that a salt regulating hormone played a causative role in the produc tion of edema was developed from the early reports of several investigators.Various authors were able to obtain urinary extracts with good sodium retaining effects from edematous patients with congestive heart failure, nephrosis, or cirrhosis of the liver (cf.
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