. Endocrinology. wished to examine whether it was impossibleby testis transplantation in castrated females to produce hyper-trophy of the clitoris, homologous to a penis, a problem to whichSteinach, strange to say, had not paid special attention. In 1916for the first time Lipschiitz made known that he had observedthis j)l)(ii()iiiejK)n in one of Steinachs Masculinized female castrate. B. in a female castrate masculinized by heterological testis iso-transplantation. Out from the folds of skin, which are turned back, the stronglyhypertrophied clitoris protrudes, pre
. Endocrinology. wished to examine whether it was impossibleby testis transplantation in castrated females to produce hyper-trophy of the clitoris, homologous to a penis, a problem to whichSteinach, strange to say, had not paid special attention. In 1916for the first time Lipschiitz made known that he had observedthis j)l)(ii()iiiejK)n in one of Steinachs Masculinized female castrate. B. in a female castrate masculinized by heterological testis iso-transplantation. Out from the folds of skin, which are turned back, the stronglyhypertrophied clitoris protrudes, presenting itself as a small penis (peniculus).See Fig. 6-D. In a number of castrated female rats I succeeded in produc-ing, besides an astonishing inversion of the psychosexual char-acter, different degrees of clitoris-hypertrophy, strikingly demonstrative somatic sign of sexual transforma-tion show^ed an exact reaction on the male hormones, a reactionwhich could be compared exactly with mamma hypertrophy inthe feminized male animal. The phenomenon is explained bythe text illustrations. 280 ENDOCRINOLOGY OF SEXUAL GLANDS As is well known, attempts have been made in recent yearsto profit from the experience gained through testis transplanta-tions on animals by applying the method with different objectsin view to human beings (in treating the results
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