Bernard A. Eskin

Brain damage, hypertrichosis, and polycystic ovaries

Five of 7 patients with bilateral polycystic ovaries had a history of central nervous system injury. In some of these patients the evidence of central nervous system injury was not elicited until special efforts were made to find it. The association of brain damage, hirsutism, and polycystic ovary in this group of patients conforms with the concept of a central mechanism for the development of polycystic ovaries.

HUMAN THYROID-OVARIAN RELATIONSHIPS. I. INFLUENCE OF SERUM FROM VARIOUS PHASES OF OVARIAN CYCLE ON GOITROGENESIS.

Abstract 1. 1. Pooled serum from healthy adult males has no significant effect upon goitrogenesis in the rat. 2. 2. Pooled serum from the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle enhances goitrogenesis significantly; in contrast, pooled serum from the follicular phase shows some tendency to inhibit goitrogenesis, although this is not statistically significant. 3. 3. Menstrual and late luteal serum pools show effects upon goitrogenesis which support the concept of a thyroid cycle consonant with the ovarian cycle. The thyroid cycle appears to reach its height of activity during the premenstrual phase of the ovarian cycle and returns to its lowest level during the follicular phase. 4. 4. These constructs are in keeping with clinical observations of the normal male and with sequential observation of the normal female during the various phases of the ovarian cycle.

Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones IIIustrated

Here is the opportunity to understand why we associate a person with a medical event, syndrome, procedure, or anatomic part. After all our complaining about the abuse of eponyms, those awkward expressions finally become meaningful, at least for reproductive medicine. Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones Illustrated is an encyclopedic tome that contains the biographies of the best-known practitioners and paragons of reproductive science who left their names for posterity. Many of their advances are now obsolete and familiar only to the history-oriented among us. However, there is vitality to these stories, which reverberate from the halls of medical colleges worldwide— including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Albany, where Sampson persisted in studying the endometrial cells flying through the fallopian tubes and resting on the surrounding pelvic peritoneum as an ipso facto cause of the still unknown endometriosis. Anatomical discoveries were responsible for cataloging tissue and providing landmarks for the gynecologic surgeon. Such