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...with opposite ailments by having them exchange some blood. They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of white blood cells) and shortage of white cells, pernicious anemia and overproduction of red cells, lack of menstruation and menstrual hemorrhage...
...reported in the American Review of Soviet Medicine last week, the process thus far seems to work in the thyroid and menstrual conditions. But U.S. doctors, who have tried similar exchanges on animals (TIME, Sept. 26, 1938), do not think much of this Russian idea. To be effective, virtually all the blood of the patients involved would have to be exchanged; and even so, the benefit would be temporary at best...
...Probably the most important single answer . . . was that aircraft work is not too heavy for the physical capabilities of the average woman. The only jobs that tired me physically were those at which I was unhappy. Both were light work. . . . I developed headache, neck ache, backache and menstrual disturbances...
...Seventeen young women suffered from severe acne associated with menstrual disorders. After injections of pregnant-mare serum (a blood extract rich in pituitary hormone), all but three of them developed clear skins, normal menses. Doctors are leary of sex-hormone treatment for acne-it has been "disappointing" in the past -but Drs. Charles Howard Birnberg and Charles Robert Rein of New York City believe that pregnant mare's serum is effective for this type of acne in women. They make no mention of men with acne...
Gynecologists doubt that it is now possible to figure out accurately a woman's sterile period. What jumbles all the figures is the fact that the menstrual cycle is as irregular and almost as unpredictable as the weather, easily upset by such things as colds, arguments, rainy spells, overwork...