Book ID: CBB736626215

The Gland Illusion: Early Attempts at Rejuvenation through Male Hormone Therapy (2017)

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Nanninga, John B. (Author)


McFarland


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 220 pages
Language: English

Testosterone and estrogen treatments are common today, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the discovery of sex gland secretions led both physicians and the public to believe they had found the secret to bodily rejuvenation. This led to bizarre human experimentation involving injections of glandular fluid, ingestion of glandular tissues and the transplanting of testes and ovaries. Stranger still, the treatments supposedly worked, with both men and women reporting enhanced vitality. Only later would the truth about these placebo-induced results be brought to light. This book explores the early history and practices of “organotherapy” and how it provided important scientific insights despite its pseudoscientific nature.

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Authors & Contributors
Dyck, Erika
Weindling, Paul
Worboys, Michael
Wiesenfeldt, Gerhard
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Toon, Elizabeth A.
Concepts
Hormones
Experiments and experimentation
Human experimentation
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Medicine
Science and ethics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
England
Argentina
Italy
Germany
Soviet Union
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
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