Medicine: Photographic Tanning

At an unnamed beach summer before last an unnamed hypogonadal (undersexed) man lay down in "an abbreviated bathing suit of peculiar cut." He lay there for seven broiling August afternoons and scarcely changed color.

The following January the pasty sun bather consulted Anatomist James B. Hamilton of Yale University School of Medicine and Dr. Gilbert Hubert of Albany Hospital, Albany, N. Y. The scientists examined him, began to treat him with male hormone substance. To their astonishment, "within three weeks there appeared, along with the bronzing of the face, a tanning of the...

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