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Word: histologist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other years, to determine Clara's sex, a surgeon would have been obliged to cut her open and a histologist would have had to study microscopic snips of her internal organs. Now, however, all that was necessary was a test of her blood and urine on virgin rats and spayed mice. If Clara was a true female, her specimens would contain glandular secretions called hormones which would put the rodents into rut. The test was made; Clara was a boy. Thereupon surgeons started a series of major operations to release the latent seeds of manhood. Last week it was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Girls into Boys | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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