Lutein extract in the treatment of decreased menstruation and the premature menopause / Ellice McDonald.

  • McDonald, Ellice, 1876-1955.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Lutein extract in the treatment of decreased menstruation and the premature menopause / Ellice McDonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DECREASED MENSTRUATION AND THE PREMATURE MENOPAUSE ellice McDonald, m.d. NEW YOKE Disturbances of menstruation are always difficult of treatment. The factors which cause and control men- struation are so little known and understood that treat- ment is largely empirical and experimental. Investiga- tion into the function of the ovary and its influence on menstruation and pregnancy are, however, beginning to shed new light on these processes, and give hope of the relief of these conditions by scientific treatment. INTERNAL SECRETION OF THE OVARY The function of the ovary and the effect of its internal secretion are becoming better understood, and the in- fluence of the corpus Inteum on menstruation and preg- nancy are now being studied experimentally in animals. Brown-Sequard1 appears to have been the first to sug- gest an internal secretion for the ovary and supposed that it was concerned in the secondary sexual character- istics. Since then many investigators have sought the presence and mechanism of the production of this in- ternal secretion. Gustav Born2 first suggested the hy- pothesis that the corpus luteum of the ovary was a gland with an'internal secretion which affected the uterus and presided over the nidation and development of the ovum. Fraenkel,3 by means of extensive experiments claims to have maintained Born’s hypothesis that the corpus luteum is a gland with an internal secretion and that 1. Brown-SSquard': Compt. rend. Soc. de biol., 1889. 2. Born : Quoted by Fraenkel, Arch. f. Gynak., 1903, xvlii, 438. 3. Franekel: Arch. f. Gynak., 1903, lxviii, 438.