[Menstrual disorders. Amenorrhea, hypomenorrhea, and oligomenorrhea]

After a summary of the physiology of the normal menstrual cycle, the author studies the symptoms of the different menstrual disorders, explaining the physiopathological basis of each. Special attention is given to amenorrhea, hypomenorrhea and oligomenorrhea. This paper is part of a symposium in which the author dealt with this type of disorders. The author insists on the importance of making hormonal dosifications. As far as the treatment is concerned it has to be by means of hormonal products in the correct dosage, and at the appropriate time in the cycle. The author mentions that he has not had experience with radiation treatment.

[Translation and commentary of the Hippocrates treatise 'The illness of girls']

De Virginibus traditionally belongs to Cnidian gynecologic treatises. The comparison with De Mulieribus shows a great difference in the physiology of menstruation and its diseases. The author, by explaining intelligence by the participation of heart and blood, is far from De Morbo sacro and draws near to Aristole's conceptions. Moreover, its vocabulary and rhetoric style indicate that this fragment can be attributed to a physician of Aristotle's period or later.

[Historical retrospective. Lipamin (Agomensin) and luteolipoid (Sistomensin). Animal experiments and preliminary clinical experiences]

In 1914 "Lipamin" and "Luteolipoid", two extracts of corpus luteum, were developed at the University Gynaecological Hospital in Erlangen, Bavaria. The process of their preparation, protected by patents, was exploited soon after that by Ciba, Basel, who named their products Agomensin and Sistomensin. The history of their development, their effects in animal experiments, as well as their early therapeutical application to women are reported. Special reference is made to the patent specifications and to the lectures held at meetings of the Bavarian Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.