Female Sex Endocrinology: Concise Therapy

This small book was prepared to serve as a quick reference on endocrinologic problems. Perhaps because of this the author has glib plans of treatment for many gynecologic disturbances. He advises a simple office procedure for stimulating ovulation which consists of cervical dilatation without anesthesia to the point of pain, using graduated cervical dilators. This procedure is done once a month five to seven days after menstruation has stopped and is repeated monthly for six months or more if need be. Perhaps during this time, ovulation would have occurred spontaneously. Other treatment for absence of ovulation consists of estrogens followed by progesterone for three or four consecutive months. For amenorrhea, the author prescribes intravenous use of pregnant mare's serum, plus estrogens and progesterone, given over a period of three months, repeated if necessary after an interval of three months. In the discussion on dysmenorrhea, androgens are recommended for the suppression