Word: amniotin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mucosa of monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks. A few months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin. an extract of the fluids in which unborn children float. They gave a sixth child amniotin by mouth. All six got rid of their gonorrhea in a few months...
Treatment is now standardized to include theelin hypodermically and amniotin in vaginal suppositories. The most resistant cases clear up in at the most six months. The treatment, said Dr. Snow, "produces a temporary maturity of the vaginal mucosa. and occasionally a trifling enlargement of the breasts. But these phenomena subside immediately after the vaginitis is cured and treatment ended. No child has ever suffered harm...
| 1 |