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About half of barren marriages can now be made fertile, compared with one-fifth 20 years ago. Strangely low metabolism often goes with sterility, and thyroid extract sometimes results in babies...
Word of a rich fish came last week from Cape Town. The fish is the source of an extract 800 times richer in vitamin A than the best cod-liver oil. The 60-lb. fish, commonly called the "bloubiskop" by South African fishermen, is the bafaro (Polyprion americanus). A thimbleful of its liver oil has enough vitamin A to supply a whole family for eight months...
Seven commercial houses under Navy contract use Dr. Cohn's methods to extract serum albumin and other blood components. Since Dr. Cohn's laboratory does war work, the outside door is locked, the number of white-garbed assistants secret. So is most of the work being done within...
...Seventeen young women suffered from severe acne associated with menstrual disorders. After injections of pregnant-mare serum (a blood extract rich in pituitary hormone), all but three of them developed clear skins, normal menses. Doctors are leary of sex-hormone treatment for acne-it has been "disappointing" in the past -but Drs. Charles Howard Birnberg and Charles Robert Rein of New York City believe that pregnant mare's serum is effective for this type of acne in women. They make no mention of men with acne...
...Actor. Last week, however, Dr. Hisaw and his assistants reported in Endocrinology that the relaxing material could not possibly be estrogen or progesterone, that it must indeed be a new hormone. The proof was partly chemical: they produced a concentrated ovarian extract from which estrogen and progesterone (which are soluble in alcohol) had been removed; the extract nonetheless had a strong relaxing effect. But the most significant evidence was a contrast in speed between relaxin and progesterone. Relaxin acted within six hours, while progesterone took two to four days to produce the same effect. Estrogen seemed to be needed...