# Career opportunity in cannibalism

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 9, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-opportunity-in-cannibalism/556617 "2010-10-09T17:40:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-opportunity-in-cannibalism/556617/21 "2010-10-11T20:22:41Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Excuse my possible pharmacologic ignorance, but I thought pitocin (at least whatever form might be in a placenta) is destroyed by digestion in the G.I. tract, which is why it’s customarily given intravenously.

You are correct, however, it was in the past administered \*buccally \*or _sublingually_. Works just fine. Too fine, in fact as the primary side effect was uterine rupture. Oopsie! \*Again \*with the titration issues! Mother Nature really is a bitch 😃

Here’s an old text which talks about buccal administration of pitocin, iffen you’re bored:  
[O’Sullivan, J. P.  
The use of buccal “pitocin” for the induction of labour.  
Irish Journal of Medical Science (1926-1967)  
Volume 40, Number 2, 67-74, DOI: 10.1007/BF02943825](http://www.springerlink.com/content/n9kw103r81802531/)

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