Subjects: MEDICINE, Experimental -- History -- 20th century ENDOCRINOLOGY -- History ENDOCRINE glands -- Research HORMONES -- Research LONGEVITY -- Genetic aspects EUGENICS -- History -- 20th century BENJAMIN, Harry ATHERTON, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 Abstract: The article focuses on the history of experimental medicine in Europe and the United States between 1918 and 1939. The author discusses the popularity of endocrinology at this time, explores why physicians believed that glands and hormones were interconnected with longevity, and analyzes the relationship between hormone sciences and eugenics. The role of doctors Harry Benjamin and John R. Brinkley and novelist Gertrude Atherton in the popularity of endocrine studies is also examined.
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