... in the 1930s he contributed important studies on the anterior pituitary lobe in Graves' disease and myxoedema, on thyrotrophin assay, on the use of antithyrotrophic serum, and on pregnanediol measurements in pregnancy and in toxaemia.
[1] In 1954 Cope and J. García-Llauradó published evidence of excess secretion of aldosterone in a case of potassium-losing nephropathy, occurring in a 41-year-old patient with a renal tube anomaly associated with a chronic pyelonephritis.
[4] Cope, García-Llauradó, and M. D. Milne were among the first researchers to identify primary aldosteronism, also known as Conn's syndrome.
In their method, the patient first empties the bladder and drinks a small test dose of 14C-labelled cortisol.
[6] His isotope-labelled dilution technique put the reliability of estimation of cortisol activity on a new level of accuracy.
[7] In 1964 Cope was the President of the Section of Endocrinology at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine.
On 9 July 1937 in Totnes, Devon, Cuthbert Leslie Cope married Eileen Gertrude Putt.