BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anabolic Steroid, Gas Chromatography, Fritz Pregl
18 Mar 2016
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Found increase in strength it was probably falsified evidence though. Speculated that these kinds of injections could be helpful for athletes. Others included bile, feces, blood, bone, intestine, placenta, teeth doctrine. Eat a heart for courage, brain for idiocy of signatures. Idea of using testacies for impotence goes back to ancient hindu scripts doctrine of signatures has been around for a long time. Transplanted testicle tissue from donor to man who had lost his testicles. Patient had a strong erection accompanied by high libido . Transplanted testicles from executed prisoners into convicts . Did so in chicago b/c they could access a lot of animal testicles there. 40kg bull testicles gave 20mg male sex hormone. Very hard to work with this substance, required years of study. Cholesterol is a steroid simply b/c of its structure. Muscle mass regeneration could be accelerated by administering testosterone. This time, it was used to make horses run faster.
