1955
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1955.tb00571.x
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Rationale of Sex Steroid Replacement in the “Neutral Gender”†

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“…The health problems of the aging female that are attributable in whole or in part to decreased ovarian function have been discussed extensively, notably by Masters (10–12), by Wilson and coworkers (13–15) and by Bakke (16). Editorial comment has acknowledged the merit of their concepts (17–19).…”
Section: Hypoestrogenismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The health problems of the aging female that are attributable in whole or in part to decreased ovarian function have been discussed extensively, notably by Masters (10–12), by Wilson and coworkers (13–15) and by Bakke (16). Editorial comment has acknowledged the merit of their concepts (17–19).…”
Section: Hypoestrogenismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Masters stated in a recent article (1), it is up to the advocates of a new‐type of therapy to demonstrate its merits rather than the responsibility of the skeptics to discredit it. In other words, the correct procedure for appraising any new form of therapy is to assume the validity of the null hypothesis— i.e.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Attempts to modify the apparently inevitable changes of senescence have led to numerous studies in which hormonal replacement therapy has been used in an effort to retard the aging process physiologically. Careful investigations by Kountz (1), Masters (2), and others have demonstrated that the administration of combined estrogen and androgen can result not only in symptomatic improvement in the well‐being of senior citizens but also in revascularization of tissue. Nevertheless, the value of sex hormone therapy in the aging postclimacteric individual has not yet been satisfactorily appraised, and opponents of this form of treatment can marshal considerable contrary evidence.…”
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