Word: aschheim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russell Sweetser Ferguson of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital got the clue for his teratoma detector from Dr. Bernhard Zondek, German Jew now without a job (TIME, June 5). Dr. Zondek and Dr. Selmar Aschheim, his colleague, found that the pituitary gland of women enlarges during pregnancy and produces two sex hormones, Prolan A and Prolan B. As soon as a woman begins to gestate a baby she begins to create those hormones, and they promptly appear in her urine...
...sexually immature female mouse injected with a concentrate of the urine of pregnancy will in four days begin to produce eggs precisely as if she were full grown. The seminal vesicles of an immature male mouse similarly treated will grow large. This Aschheim-Zondek test for pregnancy is delicate and practically infallible...