Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having put in a couple of years with FERA, I am not unfamiliar with the ability of governmental purchasing agents to buy up some awful monstrosities on perfectly normal purchase orders. In fact, if TIME will take the trouble to find out, we might discover that Farmer Hughes's son is using a small electric lamb-shearer for a razor...
...some times blurs sexual development in men & women. Biologists say there is no such thing as absolute sex. Anatomists recognized a consistent parallelism between the genital structures of male & female. Recent research on such female sex hormones as theelin reveals that the corresponding male hormones are chemically almost identical. Normal men generate traces of female hormones, and vice versa. Thus, being male or female is not a matter of one element completely excluding the other, but rather of one ele ment dominating the other. If the domi nance is too weak to prevent confusion, the individual is a hermaphrodite...
...solved this difficult problem by cutting a channel into the pelvis, lining it with a narrow U-shaped loop of the patient's own intestine. After some time the inner loop of the U was removed, leaving the outer wall to form a mucous membranal tract resembling the normal vagina...
...girl who turns out to be equipped with testes, that the physician deems it best for psychological reasons that she continue life as a female despite her male glands. A case history reported by Dr. Emil Novak, Johns Hopkins gynecologist: A college girl of 19, considered normal in childhood, had grown tall (6 ft. i in.), angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris for male activity. Moreover, the patient had a strong, deep-rooted feminine psychology...
...usually the basis of "sex changes" which make headlines. At puberty the increased production of male hormones from the glands causes the alarming "change." Then the girl changes clothes and assumes the sex which, glandularly speaking, he actually had from the beginning. It sometimes happens, however, that a normal girl suddenly begins to acquire virile features. Medical men are convinced that this is due to tumorous growths which take root on the normal sex glands, rouse to activity the dormant, vestigial male cells. When the growths are extirpated, the girl usually reverts to femininity...