Hypertrichosis

Abstract

The Adrenal GlandsMuch hope has been held in the past that more exact qualitative definition of urinary steroids would reveal the production of a different and more androgenic mixture of steroids by the adrenal glands of patients with hirsutism. Workers have been handicapped by the fact that, although the identity of the major adrenal glucocorticoid in man (cortisol) is known, the identity of the adrenal androgen is not. That such an androgen exists is made clear by a comparison of the normal female with an adrenalectomized or Addisonian female on the one hand and with a female with an . . .