An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BERTHOLD, Arnold Adolph

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Transplantation der Hoden.

Arch Anat. Physiol. uriss. Med., 42-46, 1849.

Berthold showed that transplantation of a cock’s testes to another part of the body prevented atrophy of the comb, the usual sequel to castration. He was thus the first to prove the existence of an internal secretion. English translation in Bull. Hist. Med., 1944, 16, 399-401.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones