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Book SynopsisA Scientific Book Club selection, this comprehensive account of the nature and function of the hormones in the processes of sex and reproduction.
Originally published in 1942.
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Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. ix*CONTENTS, pg. xiii*LIST OF PLATES, pg. xvii*CHAPTER I. THE PLACE OF THE HIGHER ANIMALS, $ OF MANKIND IN PARTICULAR, IN THE GENERAL SCHEME OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. THE HUMAN EGG AND THE ORGANS THAT MAKE AND CARE FOR IT, pg. 31*CHAPTER IIIOTA. THE OVARY AS TIMEPIECE, pg. 60*CHAPTER IV. THE HORMONE OF PREPARATION AND MATURITY, pg. 75*CHAPTER V. A HORMONE FOR GESTATION, pg. 99*CHAPTER VI. THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE, pg. 131*CHAPTER VII. ENDOCRINE ARITHMETIC, pg. 175*CHAPTER VIII. THE HORMONES IN PREGNANCY, pg. 195*CHAPTER IX. THE MALE HORMONE, pg. 213*APPENDIX. CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE SEX GLAND HORMONES, pg. 239*INDEX, pg. 269
