Suprarenal Virilism. With an Account of a Case
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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 of disease accompanied by altered sex characters is rapidly enlarging, whilst in others an alteration in the mechanisms which
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