Endocrine Abstracts

The interest in replacing testosterone, the most important male hormone, dates to back to antiquity. Ancient Roman and later in the Middle Ages European, Arabic and Chinese physicians prescribed the ingestion of animal testes to restore male virility. Fast forward through an interesting and questionable history of organotherapy that includes various concoctions of questionable sources for xenotransplantation of testes to modern attempts to replace testosterone. Modern testoste...