The Male Hormone

ONE OF THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT BOOKS OF 1945 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

First edition, 8 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, inscribed on front free endpaper, For Dave with love from Paul--This memoire to a great man, Herman. Paul de Kruif, May 5, '45. [10], 243 pp. Light rubbing to covers, light page browning, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good in very good-minus jacket with small edge tears and browning, in protective mylar sleeve. The author's inscription refers to HERMAN NIELS BUNDESEN (1882 - 1960), a German-American medical professional, politician, and author. He served two tenures as the chief health official of the city of Chicago, holding this role for more than 34 years in total. He also was elected Cook County coroner. In addition, he also served as president of the American Public Health Association and as a senior surgeon with the United States Public Health Service. In 1914, Bundensen came to work for the Chicago Health Department as an epidemiologist. He was working for the health department during the time the Spanish Flu Pandemic impacted the city in 1918, playing a role in securing flu vaccine for the city. Bundensen was appointed as Health Commissioner of Chicago on February 1, 1922. Early into his tenure, he declared a battle against sexually transmitted disease, controversially advocating for city-funded venereal disease clinics and municipal distribution of prophylactics, and even making them available in brothels. He launched an infant welfare program, emphasizing parental education. This was responsible for a drastic decrease in infant mortality in Chicago. By 1937, his efforts had made Chicago set new record lows for infant mortality rates in a large American city. Bundesen supported Jonas Salk's efforts to eradicate polio. In 1955, Chicago became one of the earliest cities in the United States to introduce Salk's polio vaccine. Bundesen campaigned for total inoculation of all youth. CITED BY T. Gower: Gaining Strength, Proto Magazine, Mass General Hospital July 23, 2012. One of the most talked-about books of 1945 was The male hormone, which extolled the wonders of testosterone. In it, popular science writer Paul de Kruif told of how treatment with testosterone-the primary male sex hormone, which had been identified just a decade earlier-could rejuvenate middle-aged and older men who complained of lost libido, flagging energy and sagging spirits. FROM THE JACKET FLAP: In a thrilling scientific detective story Paul de Kruif tells of the male hormone's rise from its original sexual disreputability to its present promise of lifting the total vitality of mankind. The male hormone discloses magic far beyond the merely sexual. It boosts muscle power. It banishes mental fatigue. It eases heart pain. It even restores the sanity of men in midlife who suffer male hormone hunger. Just as chemicals renew worn-out soil, so the male hormone seems to renew the tissues of aging men. It brings a gleam of hope for the extension of the working, vigorous lives of millions of Americans. The book is elaborately documented with numerous case histories, dramatic, touching, and humorous. The organic chemists who for so long toiled amid fumes of ether and danger of explosions, on a quest which everybody else scorned-these hormone hunters are shown by Paul de Kruif as a new breed of men against death, fighting not physical demise but the far sadder living death of premature old age.

PAUL DE KRUIF (1890 - 1971) was an American microbiologist and writer. Publishing as Paul de Kruif, he is known for his 1926 book, Microbe Hunters. In 1912, he graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree, and he remained there to obtain a Ph.D., which was granted in 1916. He immediately entered service as a private in Mexico on the Pancho Villa Expedition and afterwards served as a lieutenant and a captain in World War I in France. Because of his service in the Sanitary Corps, he had occasional contacts with leading French biologists of the period. After returning to the University of Michigan as an assistant professor, De Kruif briefly worked for the Rockefeller Institute (for Medical Research). He then became a full-time writer. De Kruif assisted Sinclair Lewis with his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Arrowsmith (1925) by providing the scientific and medical information required by the plot, along with character sketches.

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Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.

Year: 1945

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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