![]() ![]() The upshot was that I consented to the treatment-"-Ch. Only experimentation could reveal whether or not there was still any life left in the cells, although I responded favorably to the preliminary tests. I was a promising subject, for examination proved that my organs were healthy, my arteries soft and I was not yet sixty. The idea involved is that the stimulation of these exhausted cells would cause the other glands to function once more at full strength and a certain rejuvenation ensue as a matter of course unless, of course, they had withered beyond the power of science. In women the slower functioning of the endocrines is coincident with the climacteric, as they have been dependent for stimulation upon certain ovarian cells. "These glands in my case had undergone a natural process of exhaustion. Gertrude Franklin Atherton (1857-1948), American biographer, historian, and author of the controversial best-seller Black Oxen (1923) ![]()
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