Word: kountz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kountz's first patients for hormone treatment was a woman of 78. She was bearded, diabetic and grouchy; she often used her wooden leg as a club when a doctor approached her. She was put on estrogens. After three months, he recalls, "she became one of the sweetest persons in the hospital. She began to menstruate regularly, her beard went away, and she went home...
Even in Dr. Kountz's enthusiastic estimation, hormones do not suffice in themselves. He cites a depressed man in his 70s. "On hormones, he started coming around, but something was still bothering him. We found out that he was an inveterate gambler. I got him a job with a stock and bond company, and it made him a young man again. In four years he made $200,000. Now he's 93 and retired in Florida. He says his biggest regret is that he didn't grow old sooner...
Double Duty Drug. Most geriatricians use sex hormones more sparingly than Dr. Kountz, and some are dead set against them. They doubt that it does any good to get an old woman menstruating again, point to the danger of excessive vaginal bleeding, and the chance that erotic interests may be overstimulated in either sex. Dr. Kountz recognizes these risks-he has had such cases himself, especially in the early days of the treatment-but claims that it is all a matter of control; if the doses are right, so, usually, are the results...
...fall for that old vegetarian routine," warns Dr. Cowdry. "It'll kill you. And a low-salt diet is just as bad unless it's prescribed for a specific reason, such as a certain kind of heart disease." A good average diet for later life, according to Kountz...
...tobacco there is a difference of opinion: Cowdry okays a little; Kountz rules it out entirely...