Word: stilbestrolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Stepnowski, 32, felt like any other normally healthy man, he says, when he went to work last November at Specific Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Bayonne, N.J. Stepnowski's job was pulverizing stilbestrol, a finely powdered synthetic drug used in stock-and poultry-raising (TIME, Feb. 15) and in medicine because it acts like a female sex hormone. The company gave him a respirator, and he wore rubber gloves as he worked...
After a couple of months, Stepnowski quit his job and last week he told why. He filed suit for $300,000 against Specific Pharmaceuticals, charging that he had been "poisoned by said stilbestrol and suffered effemination," and as a result "had been rendered permanently impotent" and deprived of "the rights and benefits of marital relations." The complaint asserted that Stepnowski had inhaled the powder and absorbed it through the pores of his skin. Stepnowski's wife Mary (they have been married six years, have no children) sued for another...
...power of stilbestrol to modify (at least temporarily) the sex characteristics of men & women as well as animals is still being investigated by medical science. Whether inhalation and absorption of the drug could change John Stepnowski will have to be decided by the Hudson County court...
...reference to a male sex criminal who was given stilbestrol to keep him under control definitely implies an effect from eat ing hormone-treated chickens which just is not so ... A person could take a whole pel let used in treating chickens . . . and it would have no effect on him. There is a chance that he might have a slight nausea for a short time. In order to have any effect on his sexual activity, a pellet would need to be consumed daily, or possibly even twice daily, for at least five or six days. We can't quite...
Hearings on the bill, which start soon, promise to be lively. Krueger's lawyers have horrid tales to tell, not only of mink but of men. They tell of a male sex criminal who was given stilbestrol to keep him under control. His genitals shrank, but his breasts developed alarmingly...