TESTICLE AND OVARY ORGANOTHERAPY

Organotherapy

The sensational claims of over-zealous followers of the early teaching of Brown-Sequard has undoubtedly hindered the development of what bids fair to be a very important field of therapeutics. The great triumph which the thyroid treatment of myxcedema has justly secured makes the failure of reasonable expectations in other directions the more disappointing. This book gives an account of the phy...

Pancreatic organotherapy for diabetes, 1889-1921.

The isolation of insulin by Banting and Best in 1921 and its rapid commercial exploitation revolutionized the treatment of diabetes. The story, frequently told as a romance of medicine, is that a young orthopaedic surgeon, Frederick Banting, went to the local Professor of Physiology, J J R Macleod, asking for facilities to try to isolate the internal secretion of the pancreas. Macleod was scept...

Diseases of the Testicle

Chondrocarcinoma of the Testicle

This case has been brought forward for publication, partly because of its pathological rarity and partly on account of the interesting clinical history. The patient was a European, aged 29, single, and working in Calcutta. He was born and had lived an athletic life in one of the colonies till the age of 26, when he came to this city. In December 1894 he was struck by a cricket-ball on the right...

Cryptorchidism (Undescended Testicle) — Diagnosis and Treatment

Cryptorchidism is a term used to describe the failure of descent of the testicle into the scrotum. This condition is common among premature boys, 33% of them, and can still be identified in full-term boys in approximately 5%. Ultrasonography can help localize inguinal testicles, while abdominal magnetic resonance imaging or laparoscopy can identify non-palpable intraabdominal testis. Hormonal t...