Show Advice on Your Health a By Morris Fishbein Ed Editor Journal our American n Medical Association S li Among the greatest discoveries that have been made in medical science in Ia recent years are those related to the glands of internal secretion Among the most significant significant sig sig- sig- sig of the recent glandular products is testosterone propionate propion- propion at ate a product which is coming to be called the male sex hormone While this product was WM prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared in pure form several years ago only recently has it become possible to obtain a preparation from the urine of human beings and still more recently such a product produce has been put together by the chemists in pure form Whereas Where Where- as the product isolated from human human human hu hu- hu- hu man materials was called andro- andro the product put together out of the chemical called cholesterol cholesterol choles choles- terol taken from wool fat is known as testosterone Since the product was developed developed developed devel devel- it has begun to be tested in relationship to many different physical and even mental conditions conditions condi condi- I affecting the human body Its use has been studied in en enlargements en- en enlargements of the prostate gland in the treatment of of the thyroid gland in the case of women who seem to have excess excess ex ex- cess activity of certain of the glandular substances developed in their bodies and in the case of other women who have lost the ef of certain glandular substances substances sub sub- stances stanc from their bodies Men who have suffered changes change m m in the body as a result of a cor complete complete com com- deficiency of sex gland ac c- c have apparently been treated treated treat treat- ed with this substitute and have hav responded in such a manner as 6 to indicate that the substitute takes take S the place to some extent of the thi normal tissues 1 3 More recently some investigators tors have indicated that these glandular substances definitelY stimulate sexual activity in the normal male and inhibit reproductive tive processes in the female Again it has beer been suggested that these products may actually affect th the thought processes of men in advanced advanced ad ad- years stimulating mental menta l activity M While perhaps only a few fey i if If any of these claims have as as' as y ye I t been fully verified by enough controlled corf con con- trolled studies to indicate that thai they represent actual accomplish accomplishments ments enough has already beer been been done to show that this is one oj if f the great contributions to modern medical science 1 I Next Next Next-Ence Poliomyelitis |