Androgen Therapy In Women

Fads and fashions always have characterized the practice of medicine, indeed, even diseases are not free from these vagaries, as our old Professor of Medicine observed in a paper on ‘Fashions in Typhoid Fever,’ but unfortunately clinical endocrinology in recent years has had more than a healthy share of these. The past 12, years have seen extravagant therapeutic excursions involving the use of chorionic gonadotropin, equine gonadotropin and now the currently popular ones, androgens and diethylstilbestrol. The organotherapeutist of several decades past did little harm and dubious good with his glandular potions regardless of his ardent empiricism or the woeful paucity of his pretherapeutic diagnostic endeavors. Now, however, there is not the same immunity for the careless or unscientific therapeutic enthusiast. Many of the currently available endocrine preparations are powerful pharmacodynamic principles, which, depending upon the skill of the clinician, may be implements for the repair of damaged glandula...