Suprarenal Virilism (Pubertas Præcox)

Suprarenal Virilism

Until a year ago the patient, a girl aged 5 years, was to all appearances norma], mentally and physically. During the dst twelve months she became fat, listless, unusually silent, Prone to sit about, disinclined to take an interest in her Surroundings or to play with other children. With the increasing fatness growth in stature was at an normally vigorous rate, hair developing on the limbs and ...

Suprarenal " Virilism " in a Domestic Hen , Its Possible Significance

THE great majority of hermaphrodites or sex reversals, hitherto described in domestic fowls, have been in old hens and have usually been associated with disease of the ovary and neoformation of testicular tissue. The present case differs essentially in several respects. It occurred in a Rhode Island Red pullet hatched in December 1934. The group to which it belonged began to lay in June 1935, a...

Suprarenal Virilism. With an Account of a Case

We cannot afford to ignore, as physicians or citizens, the biological attributes of sex in the study of behaviour, achievement or disease. The biological sciences, borrowing many facts from medical and pathological experience, have established a few fundamental principles of great value in the study of primary and secondary sex differentiation, and in the light of these principles our knowledge...

Dementia Præcox in India

A certain number of cases (and that not at all a small one), of insanity among young adults in this country, including both Natives of India and Europeans born here, present the characters of that disease described elsewhere under the name of Dementia Precox. It may be summarised as a mental disease of adolescence which among Indian insanes at any rate is never recovered from, of prolonged dura...

Graviditas Serotina et Præcox