Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1945 — Page 12

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~ Despite Ballyhoo, Hormone Pills Make No One Youosor

By EARL T, ENGLE | At the present moment the so- elaborated by at least one other en- estrogenic or androgenic hormones. 1D, Professor of Anatoly, Columbia | called “sex hormones” are being ex- !docrine gland, the adrenal cortex. The elasticity of the arteries and of University College of Physicians [ploited by the ready-worded writers, The estrogens and androgens | the skin changes after middle life, NEW sid Surgeons. y {The term - “sex hormones” Tepre- have considerable” importance in|{The tone of -the muscles and reYORK, May 30, -- Wien sents an historical inaccuracy, causing the development of the sec- [covery from fatigle changes with | : peeople reach middle age they begin (1: was quickly dropped by medi- ondary. sex characters in girls and age. . 5 : 3 to be fearful of growing old. They /ca] men, but-is persistent in the boys, respectively, at the beginning Experimental medicine is grin] Pretty, Cool Clearance! have no faith in the famous lines|jay mind. This group of substances,!of -adolescence. They are not "sex| coneernéd with these matters, and ! from- Browning, “Grow old along calléd steroid” hormones by the specific, however, since both are experiments have been made in the | with me. The best is yet to be,” |chemist, contain among others two |present in varying amounts in both use of androgens and estrogens. | but make a frantic effort to regain general categories of hormones, normai* men and women. Para- Some of the experiments have been | their vanished youthfulness. . Produced by Glands doxically the stallion, one of the | lcarefully. and precisely done, with The magic in the words vitamins | 71 re the ‘estrogens, formerly most “masculine” of animals, pro- | [constant checking with that god of or hormones is attractive to many tese a s . duces an extremely large quantity | the experimentalists, the control exof this great group of our people. called “female sex hormones,’ and | of estrogens, the hormones formerly | periment. The advertising agencies and the androgens, once classified as “male | called fenmle sex hormones. : Just Feel Younger ; A ; ‘ . i faaide and uninformed journalléts sex hormones.” This latter usage] Another connotation which is er-| ‘A most useful control in such ex-| \ 3 an do much to keep before the public is repeated in the title of a new roneous Is associated with the word periments is in the elimination of the hopes that youth need not be book. Tliese estrogens and andro- + ‘sex" hormones. Sex may mean the power of suggestion. While] lost, or once vanished, that it may gens are produced in the gonads, | maleness or femaleness, but to most | men may “feel lots better and pep- | quickly be restored. the ovaries and testes, and also|people sex ‘means just what the pier” when being given androgen | EE ——————— - " - Ee — | boys in the smoking rcom mean by treatment, they frequently show | \ sex. It is in the latter sense that just as marked improvement when | the word sex hormone is inaccurate. being given an inert and harmless

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ua] behavior in_the human is Soa) a Th KNOWS, COm-| And the woman who won't admit | g Y R CODES: AS ove ii [to 50 years amd’ invests in hormone | 8 CEE back seersucker

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rn : > wy ” > 8vior. pattern | The man past 60 who hopes to Sal UN : and stripes. Ruf- : The functions of these hormones | ..:tore his aging arteries and con- | C0) A 205 and pickvack : are not 1 icted to: sex or repro-|cummate the dreams of by-gone WR 8 he r e { ( acK Rn I : I : duction but also are important in|years hy using the chemists’ magic & Pad ; S trim. Colors pink, egu ar y

other physiological phases of the gstergid hormones will be, at best lilv econiomy y or " He) = ¢ 4 bodily. economy. disillusioned. green, blue and 22.50 to 29.50 Many cakes . . . colors and Ww hile these HovOnes hue = Workers in experimental medicine | y I Qi 14 important role in the development ays jnterested in .these problems own. OlzZes signs to select from. Last cuts » eu S ese p desig : of the bloom of youth, they do sO hoth for their theoretical and. their > a from rolls bearing famous names only within the’ limits of the in-|practical value. to 20. Here is a real value! such as . . . ARMSTRONG, herited constitutional qualities and, When fiew methods are found for Broken assortments h 1 ion he 11 id= : : SLOAN - BLABON, CONGO- ihe nutritional state of the individ- preventing undesirable features of for juniors and

ual. ‘growing old, the public will then be AYTIME i LEUM-NAIRN and . BONNY. - The actual clinical use of these told authoritatively. : D/ IME 5 : misses.

MAID. Many pieces large enough hormones is limited. They-are used ynti] then, we will continue the . » DRESS SHOP aderaein as insulin is used in diabetes or as search instituted by Ponce de Leon | : \ WASSON'S COATS

to cover a single room. > thyroid substance is used in hypo- for that limpid spring—but the : N DOWNSTAIRS thyroidism, that is when there is| source of that spring is not to be

definite “evidence of-a lack of the found in a bottle of hormone tab-| appropriate hormone. lets at the corner drug store. ¢ Aid in Adjustment 4-DAY STRIKE ENDED i | Thus androgen may be used Ih| pap ARTHUR, Tex. May 31 (U.

3 young men who have lost botl : : ; os Za G- i ; Sq. Yd. Sorads o ey ' P). — Near-normal production was : ia Be Piece D mity | EOE ¥ Surger Sease. resumed at the Gulf Oil Co.’s giant | i a : x Port Arthur re -| have. reached th e menopause or Tefinery today after ap

INCA EINOLEUM. (| come stb ster ron, or Cr G0 RRR | =r © Ik T m : : ; . oon i widely prescribed by a Unaunor : i” hv i Ty ne at deg i : i eA : Ki 1€ MW t a - r i m d ! “ vy ai he woman in| f 2 Re e 3 3 4 98 Sq. Y d. making necessary physiological ad- Z : "x : - SN : 4 is : " * justments incident to the. cessation ry 1 : 2g . 8 d > ’ ’ g of menstrual life. This treatment i d j is frequently not necessary in| women of the younger age groups! who have lost the ovaries because of disease or tumorous growths. Estrogens are frequently used in older men who have a cancer of the prostate gland, In such a seriously malignant disease, either the removal of all source of androgen or the administration of estrogen causes amelioration 6f the pain and

other ‘symptoms of the patient. mt» En I : J ; . Such treatment is palliative only; it eg ex b Ce \ 3 : @ does not “cure” the cancer. Ni | NE i , ~T RT a . : ;

When androgen is administered to older men with diminishing sexual activity, the effect gained is usually more psychological "than physiological. In the minds of many..physicians . there is: always the knowledge that ‘cancer of the prostate, referred to above, is at least activated by this hormone,

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