Word: gonad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young guesses: "Fundamentally these disturbances of development must rest on the original chromosome formula" in the fertilized ovum which turns into a hermaphroditic baby. The embryo through the sixth to seventh week shows no differentiation into male or female. Thereafter, in the normal course of gestation, the primitive gonad becomes male or female, and the rest of the genital apparatus follows suit. But, in an astonishingly frequent number of gestations, something occurs to interfere with the development of the accessory male or female apparatus. The only thing a doctor can do about the matter is-in embarrassing cases-to operate...
...Quentin. Calif., two doctors fed goldfish beef muscle, fed other goldfish ground-up ram gonads. discovered that gonad feeding discouraged goldfish obesity...
...Serge Voronoff, gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...