Word: selmar
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Russell Sweetser Ferguson of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital got the clue for his teratoma detector from Dr. Bernhard Zondek, German Jew now without a job (TIME, June 5). Dr. Zondek and Dr. Selmar Aschheim, his colleague, found that the pituitary gland of women enlarges during pregnancy and produces two sex hormones, Prolan A and Prolan B. As soon as a woman begins to gestate a baby she begins to create those hormones, and they promptly appear in her urine...
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