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Seller's Description:
Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Second printing. Inscribed to previous owner by the author on the front free endpaper. 313 pp. including index and illutrations. With an Introduction by M. F. Ashley Montague of Columbia University. A fine, otherwise unmarked copy. The dust jacket has light edge wear. The spine is a bit sunned.
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Sudonna, Inc., New Jersey, 1978. 313 pgs. Illustrated with black and white plates. Third Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. This work on hirsutism and virilism covers the subject historically (ancestral curse or endocrinopathy? ), to the related biochemistry and hormonal aspects, disease-specific issues (Cushing's syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, virilizing adrenal and ovarian tumors, polycystic ovarian syndrome, et al), to the role of oral contraceptives and antiandrogens in treatment, and much more. Ashley Montagu states "The present volume will be helpful to physicians both in the diagnosis and in the treatment of female hirsutism, and at the same time serve to point the direction in which further research requires to be done before the complex of conditions embraced in the words "female hirsutism" is understood, and adequate treatment for all cases become available. E-142; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 313 pages.
