Abstract
DR. BLAIR BELL belongs to that limited group of medical men who resort to the experimental laboratory to extend and verify their means of diagnosis and treatment of clinical conditions. He has given us, under the title “The Sex Complex,” observations made in the course of a prolonged inquiry into the nature of the secondary sexual characters of the human body—more particularly the normal and abnormal manifestations of sex in woman. His work will appeal to all who are trying to unravel the obscure and delicate manner in which the sexual system is developed and balanced. From prehistoric times mankind has been familiar with the effects of castration; the effects which followed that operation gave rise to the belief that the sexual characteristics of the male, both mental and bodily, were determined by the testes, while, conversely, feminine characters depended on the ovaries.
The Sex Complex: A Study of the Relationships of the Internal Secretions to the Female Characteristics and Functions in Health and Disease.
By Dr. W. B. Bell. Pp. xvii + 233. (London: BailliÃre, Tindall and Cox, 1916.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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The Sex Complex: A Study of the Relationships of the Internal Secretions to the Female Characteristics and Functions in Health and Disease . Nature 98, 266–267 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098266a0
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