An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15871 entries, 13811 authors and 1928 subjects. Updated: March 19, 2023

ALLEN, Edgar

3 entries
  • 1183

An ovarian hormone.

J. Amer. med. Ass., 81, 819-21, 1923.

Isolation of the active principle of the ovarian hormone (oestrin). More detailed account in J. biol. Chem., 1924, 61, 711-23.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones
  • 1185

The menstrual cycle of the monkey, Macacus rhesus. Observations on normal animals, the effects of removal of the ovaries and the effects of injection of ovarian and placental extracts into the spayed animals.

Contr. Embryol. Carneg. Instn., 19,1-44, 1927.

This paper marks the beginning of modern knowledge of the menstrual cycle. Allen showed that uterine bleeding occurs as a withdrawal effect when estrogen ceases to act on the endometrium.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones
  • 1197

Sex and internal secretions; a survey of recent research.

Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1932.

Second edition, 1939, with C. H. Danforth and E. A. Doisy.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones