Word: theelin
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...Doisy, tall, meticulous, 50-year-old head of the Biochemistry Department at St. Louis University, was already famous when he began working on vitamin K: he had isolated theelin, a female sex hormone in 1929, and a similar hormone in 1936 (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936). In 1939 he announced that he had analyzed two substances giving the same activity as vitamin K, and recently he patented a method of synthesizing.the vitamin. Synthetic vitamin K, called Menadione (fluid injections or tablets), has saved many lives...
...their patients the doctors chose two women (one aged 70) with broken arms, and a young girl with a fractured leg. For many weeks their shattered limbs had hung like broken branches. The doctors gave them injections of the hormone theelin three times a week. Within a short time their bones began to "bud," and the jagged edges finally grew together...
...implantation method might easily be used on humans "with minimum inconvenience to the patient," they said. They cited a case of a woman who obtained relief from menopause symptoms after a 14-milligram tablet of estrone (ovarian hormone, known in the U. S. as theelin) was stitched under her skin...
...long as five years. The cure for vaginitis is only four years old. In January 1934, at Yale. Dr. Robert Lewis took a hint from Dr. Edgar Allen, who found that female sex hormones toughened the vaginal mucosa of monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks. A few months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin. an extract of the fluids in which unborn children float. They gave...
Treatment is now standardized to include theelin hypodermically and amniotin in vaginal suppositories. The most resistant cases clear up in at the most six months. The treatment, said Dr. Snow, "produces a temporary maturity of the vaginal mucosa. and occasionally a trifling enlargement of the breasts. But these phenomena subside immediately after the vaginitis is cured and treatment ended. No child has ever suffered harm...