Word: sexes
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...other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy Vitamin C concentrations. Concentration in the ovary reaches its height as the ovum ripens. That relation suggested to Drs. Click & Biskind that Vitamin C may be involved in the formation of sex hormones...
Sheep's Wool & Sex. "We have a positive cure for homosexuality," exclaimed Professor Leopold Ruzicka, a Swiss organic chemist who lectured at the University of Chicago this summer. In 1931 Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Danzig discovered in the urine of men (and some women) the hormone which establishes masculinity in men (and some women). That male sex hormone was named androsterone. Last year Professor Ruzicka manufactured androsterone from cholesterol collected from the grease of sheep's wool. Last June Dr. E. Laqueur of Amsterdam discovered still another, more potent male sex hormone. Professor Ruzicka now expects to make...
Meanwhile doctors over the face of the earth, experimenting with Chemist Ruzicka's artificial androsterone, have told him enough to warrant his claiming: "By the injection of the hormone, normal sex desires can be awakened and will be accompanied by certain physical changes. The hormone, further, can be used in reducing enlargement of the prostate gland; common in elderly...
...across the years, the chief distinction of Sophomores Abroad is Author Flandrau's wryly amusing apology for having written it. When he began his literary career, certain topics, including religion, college education, youth and the possessors of great wealth, were sacred in popular magazines, while other topics, like sex, cigarets and alcohol, were absolutely taboo. A character in the thick of battle might slay Indians, but he could not smoke. When Author Flandrau gave one of his travel-harassed heroes the satisfaction of a long, cold highball, it came out in print that the boy got only a glass...
Orator Streicher warmed up the crowd by salting his remarks on Jews with jocular allusions to sex, always good for a laugh in Germany. Men guffawed, women flushed and giggled as he cried: "You can't make a Jew out of a German by getting him circumcised in a synagogue! . . . Thank God that, although there is yet no law to prevent race pollution, we have judges who send men to jail for defiling the proud German race! . . . The priests will marry even a Negro and a German woman, providing they are both Catholics, but after nine months what...