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of the corpus luteum are epoch-making. According to Loeb the corpus 

 luteum supplies to the uterus a sensitizing substance which prepares it to 

 respond with the production of the maternal placenta, if there is added an 

 external stimulus of a mechanical nature. 



Seitz, Wintz, and Fingerhut have been able to isolate from the cow's 

 corpus luteum two bodies. One of these, a luteoproteid, has hemorrhage- 

 checking properties; the other, a lecithin albumin, has, in animals, a stimu- 

 lating influence on the genitalia. When injected subcutaneously in amenor- 

 rheic women, it brought about menstruation. 



The knowledge of the relation of possible sexual glandular diseases to 

 dementia precox, as suggested by positive Abderhalden reactions when ex- 

 tracts of the sexual glands are tested against the sera of dementia precox 

 patients is as yet very obscure. The results of such tests against the sera 

 of chlorosis patients, would, in view of the author's views on the cause of 

 chlorosis, be very interesting. 



Whitehead (R. H.).' The structure of a testis from a case of human hermaphroditism. 

 Anat. Record, Vol. VII, 1913, p. 83. 



Saenger (A.). Ueber Eunuchoidismus. Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Nervenheilkunde, 

 Vol. LI, H. 3-6, 1914, pp. 178-197. 



Loeb (L.). The experimental production of the maternal placenta and the function of 

 the corpus luteum. J. Am. M. Assn., Oct. 30, 1909, Vol. LIII, No. 18. 



Seitz (L.), Wintz (H.), and Fingerhul (Z,.). Ueber die biologische Funktion des 

 Corpus luteum, seine chemischen Bestandteile, und deren therapeutische Verwendung 

 bei Unregelmassigkeiten der Menstruation. Miinchen. med. Wchnschr., 1914, LV. 

 pp. 1657-1661, 1734-1738. 



