Word: histologist
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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...
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