title: Transforming the testicle: science, medicine and masculinity, 1800-1950.
abstract: The article explores episodes the history of the discovery of function and actions of testicle - focusing first on their transformation from a quasi - mystical organ of virility to chemical factory secreting substances essential to physical and psychological attributes of masculinity; then showing how the powers of the testicular secretions were soon seen to extend for beyond the narrowly sexual sphere.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, The University of Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sengoopta
mesh_terms: D033441:Andrology / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*; D013737:Testis