Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the delicate linings of the nose are influenced by sex hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing...
...becoming increasingly important from reading the above paragraph that mature men and women should have some knowledge about birth control and the many causes of divorce. Also they should know something of the effects such differences as age, class, grade, religion, occupation, politics, hobby, color, and sex have upon marital relations. Since every one of these factors has a great bearing on the success of failure of a marriage, expert information on such subjects ought to be available to college students...
Mother Love. Six years ago, by a repeated complicated procedure called "isoelectric precipitation," the Riddle laboratory crew obtained a pituitary substance which did not noticeably affect the thyroid or the sex glands, but which had a marked effect on the mammary glands. It started milk production not only in normal female guinea pigs but also in spayed females and males. In pigeons it thickened the crop sac, which provides a liquid ("pigeon milk") with which pigeons feed their young. Riddle called this new hormone prolactin...
Busy Hormone. Prolactin also inhibits the activity of the sex glands, which is obviously nature's way of quieting the distraction of sex urges when parental behavior and responsibility are called for. And either alone or in concert with other hormones, it maintains the weight of abdominal organs; controls basal metabolism (heat production) ; promotes appetite; and probably also affects the metabolism of carbohydrates...
Clinicians have given prolactin to human mothers to stimulate milk production. Result: some successes, some failures. In the failures, however, the mammary tissue of the mother was usually itself deficient. The job of preparing the mammary tissue for nursing seems to belong to the sex hormones estrone and progesterone. Prolactin's job is to start milk secretion after the breasts are ready...