Endocrine Abstracts

We all know that endocrinology is the most amazing specialty. However although some of the discoveries in the last 3–400 years have been amazing, some of the wrong turns have exhibited opportunism and quackery. Perhaps we should start with testosterone and the effects of castration. We know that removal of the testes before puberty has irreversible affects and that in 16th and 17th centuries these were exploited for music. Popes did not come out of this covered in glory a...