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...thinks that the fresh testes of a living goat or monkey are hung onto the male genitals in place of worn-out glands. This ignorance results from a bashful obscurantism which keeps the public from acquiring exact facts about the procreative processes. They do not know that the Steinach method is altogether different...
...Steinach theory recognizes that the testes create spermatozoa (the male sexual cells, which keep up the endless cycle of life). At the same time, the theory supposes** that the testes form an internal secretion. This secretion pours into the blood stream by way of the veins leading from the ductless (in this case also ducted) glands, carries with it hormones, messengers. In the male these are male hormones, in the female "female sex" hormones, "ovarian" hormones, and so on according to the causation view held by the research reporter. These hormones influence the secondary sex characteristics-body build, hair distribution...
...female such blocking off is very difficult, practically impossible. Yet results comparable to those from the Steinach operation on men have been obtained for women by use of the Xray. The X-ray is extremely penetrating, throws shadows of the anatomy on suitably placed photographic films, which the physician may study for better diagnosis. To get such a photograph the patient is exposed to the rays for only some seconds. Prolonged exposure causes. destruction of tissue. So this latter phenomenon physicians use to devitalize cancerous growths-and on the ovaries to bring on artificial menopause...
...intermediate exposure time of the ovaries and their related bodies, Dr. Steinach as far back as 1920 theorized, would slow up or stop the ova production of a patient and at the same time permit the continued creation of the sex hormones, stimulate the women. In the U. S. Dr. Harry Benjamin cautiously put this theory to practice. He uses a stimulation dose of X-ray one-seventh to one-tenth as strong as needed to produce erythema (redness). His conservative decision was that moderate, carefully regulated exposures of the ovarian sites to the X-rays induced good body...
...results of preventing the emission of spermatozoa, of leaving to the testes the duty of producing only the male sex hormones, have been extremely satisfying, as in the case of Dr. Lorenz. The Steinach operation is performed, however, on young men-the potential fathers, heads of families-with great reluctance. In some cases-from sexual excesses, from overwork, from disease-spermatozoa production has fallen off or ceased entirely. In "older" men, usually in those who have reached their sixties, similar falling off or cessation occurs. For such the operation is beneficial. They will pep up, with all the connotations this...