This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...in 1878 was the practice of desexing boys to get the famous adult male soprano voices for the Sistine Choir discontinued. Eemoval of the ovaries in women likewise produces an infantile condition, which is pronounced only in case the operation takes place very young (24). From his clinical experience, Dr. Bell (2, p. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...in 1878 was the practice of desexing boys to get the famous adult male soprano voices for the Sistine Choir discontinued. Eemoval of the ovaries in women likewise produces an infantile condition, which is pronounced only in case the operation takes place very young (24). From his clinical experience, Dr. Bell (2, p. 160) concludes that no very definite modifications can be produced in an adult woman by withdrawal of the ovarian secretion alone. "There must be," he says, "some gross change in those parts of the endocritic system, especially apart from the genital glands, which normally produce masculinity--a potentiality that appears to be concentrated in the suprarenals, the pituitary and probably in the pineal." What, then, do we mean by "male" and "female" in man? Take Dr. Russell Andrews' patient: photographs (2, plate opposite p. 243)" show a rounded bodily outline, hairless face, well-developed mammae--the female sex char acteristics in every respect which the ordinary person conld detect. Yet an operation proved that the sex glands themselves were male. Presumably extreme cases like the above are rare. Obviously operations cannot be performed on all those with female-type bodies who do not bear children, to determine the primary sex, and conversely with men. This does, however, point the obvious question: Are not some we classify as men more male or masculine than others--some we classify as women more feminine than others? Bearing in mind the fact that the genetic basis for both sexes exists in each individual, are not some women more masculine than others, some men more feminine than others? However much we may object to stating it just that way, the biological fact remains thus. The Greeks called these i...
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