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...Maternal Health Association's new "Fertility Clinic"-a project of Cleveland's famed Brush Foundation which brings together previously scattered services-an internist, endocrinologist, urologist, gynecologist, nutritionist and psychiatrist have joined in a many-sided attack on the problem. To the young married couples who come to the clinic, they give thorough physical and mental examinations, prescribe special diets and hygiene rules. Sometimes they use surgery and drugs. Hormones may help, but endocrinologists have found no support for the idea that the "male hormone" (testosterone) increases fertility...
Another of Johns Hopkins' great medical men died last week.* Dr. Hugh Hampton Young, dead at 74 of a heart attack, went to the Medical School as a graduate student in 1895 and stayed to become a professor and the world's No. 1 urologist. Of his specialty he once said: "A generation ago a free discussion of my medical work might have been unacceptable. My work has been largely with afflictions about which there is still much ignorance; they are some of the deadliest diseases...
...Urologist Young was born in San Antonio, son of a Confederate general so unreconstructed that he refused to let his son go to West Point and wear a ''Yankee uniform." After a brief go at journalism, the would-be soldier studied medicine at the University of Virginia, then went back home to practice...
Held His Head On. Docky is a pleasure-loving, truculent, curly-haired Irish urologist. Louella married him 15 years ago, shortly after he dived into the Bimini Baths on Vermont Avenue when they had no water in them, broke his neck but saved his life by holding his own head in place until another doctor came. Today Docky is head studio physician at 20th Century...
...attack of shingles, Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Johns Hopkins might never have written his autobiography. And that would have been a pity. For, besides being the foremost urologist in the U. S., 70-year-old Dr. Young is a raconteur of parts. His memoirs, Hugh Young: A Surgeon's Autobiography (Harcourt, Brace; $5), bursting with scientific facts and exquisite drawings of urologic diseases and operations, make a lusty, gusty book...