Edmond J. Farris

A test for determining the time of ovulation and conception in women

A method for determining the time of ovulation in women is presented. Ovulation is detected by the reaction of the immature white rat ovary to a womans urine; if ovulation is taking place the ovaries become hyperemic. The method was evaluated in 88 married women and 12 single women. A positive test for 3-4 successive days each month was considered the normal reaction. This was the case for most of the women. However a few women had a positive test for 1-2 days followed by 1 day or more of negative results and then a positive test for 1-2 days. This was considered an abnormal response. There was no reaction in any month in a few women. The results indicate that the 3rd or 4th day of a normal reaction is the optimal time for conception to occur. 18 women who complained of infertility became pregnant in the months when they showed a normal reaction. Urine assays indicated the presence of gonadotropins when the hyperemic reaction was positive.

Validity of two–hour rat test for human pregnancy

Summary The two-hour rat test was not found to be specific for diagnosis of pregnancy. The two-hour rat test gave positive color reactions in nonpregnancy conditions as follows: a. In women undergoing menopausal changes. b. In normal women for three successive days during midinterval of cycle, with range from the twelfth through the eighteenth day. c. In normal women on single days, usually during menstruation and again late in cycle. d. In men and women after coitus. e. In men anticipating coitus. f. In one woman with hydatidiform mole. g. In one woman with clinical diagnosis of insanity.

The prediction of the day of human ovulation by the rat test as confirmed by fifty conceptions

Abstract Recently the author described a method for detecting the time of ovulation in women 1 and in monkeys 2 . In a later communication Murphy and Farris 3 indicated the practical value of the test, in a report upon ten women, who conceived when either intercourse or insemination was practiced on the day of ovulation, as determined by the test. The present report deals with the time in the menstrual cycle that ovulation takes place. The observations were made chiefly upon women who had never conceived. The data upon their ovarian activity are presented.

GELDENHUYS, NORVAL. The Intimate Life, or The Christian's Sex-Life. With a fore word by Dr. Charles R. Erdman. Pp. 96. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952.

man within a given culture. The work reveals more than once that he was the product of a cultural background different in important respects from the one shared by the readers of this English text. Moreover he ways, writing in a different historical period. Sociology itself, like all the social sciences, has made considerable progress since 1929. One wonders if the Marxist learning Mannheim shows at several places in this volume would have survived the events of the years since his death in 1947.