Abstract
The suggestion of Steinach that an antagonism exists between the male and the female sex glands has been discussed by different authors. Recently Moore, basing his opinion on the experimental work of himself and of his pupil Fisher, came to the conclusion that the assumption of an antagonism has to be rejected (1). Experimental work which I have done during the past two years with my coworkers, first with W. Krause and H. E. V. Voss, later on with F. Lange, M. Tutso, H. Perli and D. Svikul, made it evident that the position as held by Moore is by no means justified. First of all Moore does not discriminate between two different meanings of “antagonism.” Steinach spoke of an antagonism of the sex glands in the sense that the taking and the survival of the heterosexual graft is inhibited by the glands in situ. According to Steinach the taking and the survival of the heterosexual graft is possible only when the glands in situ are removed and, as in his experiments with hermaphroditism, reengrafted simultaneo...
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