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It is hard to believe that when several of us who are here began work on hypertension, there was no treatment for it worthy of the name. True, we had many suggested remedies, such as extract of watermelon and cucumber seeds, mistletoe and garlic; and one enterprising business man sold “whiffless garlic”. Red meat and too much sex were forbidden! No one really believed in the lowsalt diet. About 1928, potassium thiocyanate began to be used by a few, but it caused many toxic manifestations and was more effective against headaches than as a means of lowering arterial pressure.
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Page, I.H. (1966). Drug treatment of hypertension. In: Gross, F. (eds) Antihypertensive Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49737-7_36
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