Oral Administration of Methyl Testosterone in Gynecology

Abstract

THE USE OF ANDROGENIC HORMONES for the relief of varied functional gynecologic disorders has now been thoroughly accepted. That male sex hormone therapy has an established use in certain gynecologic disturbances is attested by the large number of clinical and experimental reports covering thousands of cases. The method of administration of these androgenic substances has been parenterally, either by the intramuscular injection of testosterone propionate in oil, the use of an active ointment through the skin, or more rarely, the subcutaneous implantation of pellets. The purpose of the present paper is to show that equally good results in the treatment of many gynecologic disturbances have been obtained by the oral administration of the synthetic and orally active androgenic hormone, methyl testosterone. It will be seen from the results of the present series of cases that the only therapeutic difference between the intramuscular injection of testosterone propionate and the oral administration of methyl test...