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Wrote Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer of Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "There seems to be a prevailing notion that ... all that is necessary to effect a cure is to perform an orchiectomy [castration]. It is extremely unfortunate. . . . Results are . . . anything but desirable...
...Kretschmer's blunt boo gains force from his experience with eleven castrated patients who had some prostatic tissue cut out besides: "Three of the patients are dead [after] five, eight and eleven months; one patient is bedridden, requiring frequent doses of morphine; three patients have pain; one patient had painful urination and attacks of hematuria [bloody urine]; only three say they are improved after eleven, seven and three months respectively." (Procastration doctors say that Dr. Kretschmer is wrong to discount the initial improvement in his patients, even if it is short-lived...
...That previous attempts, including those of famed Ernst Kretschmer of Germany, to sort human physiques had bogged down in a welter of mixed types, subtypes, hybrid types, etc., because individuals would not fit preconceived categories. Sheldon attacked the pigeonholing problem from another angle: that of three structural components or characteristics (of his own devising) body measurements would enable an investigator to determine, for any person, the strength of each component. That strength could be rated numerically on a scale of 1 (almost complete absence) to 7 (almost complete dominance). Then the individual's body type would be a three...
...consequence of the resignation of Professor Kretschmer as President of the General Medical Association of Psychotherapy, I have been entrusted with the Chairmanship and direction of the "Zentralblatt fur Psychotherapie...
Fellows of the A. M. A. salute the Journal's ever-busy editor. Dr. Morris Fishbein, its business manager. Will Conrad Braun, and General Manager Olin West. They produce the income. They, however, do not guard the accumulation. For that job, Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer, Chicago's genitourinary surgeon, was last week chosen A. M. A. treasurer. He succeeds Dr. Austin Albert Hayden. Chicago ear-eye-& throat surgeon, elected an A. M. A. trustee. Trustees were proud that the total depreciation of the securities in their charge "amounted to less than 6%, which is believed...