The Male Hormone.
Abstract
De Kruif writes the story of the male sex hormone with his usual ability to dramatize scientific observations.
Dr. H. N. Bundesen, health commissioner of Chicago, was responsible for De Kruif's personal sampling of the effects of the hormone. Dr. Bundesen also gave him new ideas about its possibilities as a "life-builder," in contradistinction to the ideas he had previously held about the irreversibility of old age, as stressed by his teacher of pathology, Dr....