Howard F. Kane

The Use of Progesterone in Combating Habitual Abortion

Summary 1. In 40 cases of repeated spontaneous abortion treated by progesterone and thyroid extract, 36 living children were born. 2. Pure progesterone seems to be more effective than the extract of the corpus luteum. 3. The fact that a pregnancy has been successfully completed does not obviate the necessity for treatment in subsequent pregnancies. 4. The incidence of fetal abnormality is high among women who bear children after having previously aborted. 5. Endocrinologic investigation of women who bear defective children may be the means of discovering the cause and providing a method of eliminating this complication of pregnancy.

Stricture-forming lesions of the female genitals and rectum

Abstract 1. 1. Attempts have been made in the District of Columbia, at Gallinger Municapal Hospital, to develop facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of lesions of the female genitals. 2. 2. The use of sodium salt of sulfanilic acid in the treatment of lymphopathia venereum has been discussed. 3. 3. Corrective surgical procedures can be utilized in lymphopathia venereum of the vulva, the healing phase of granuloma inguinale and in the papillomatous growth of condyloma acuminatum. 4. 4. We have not necessarily explored new fields but have applied established diagnostic procedures. Only in this way can a higher percentage of correct diagnoses be made and proper therapy instituted.