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Kurt A. Oster, MD
Bridgeport, Conn

JAMA. 1983;249(14):1826.

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To the Editor.—

In the MEDICAL NEWS section (1982;248:2212), a summary on prostaglandin research states that, in the early and mid-1930s, Ulf S. von Euler, MD, reported that human semen and extracts of sheep seminal vesicular glands had peculiar properties. Because of the origin of these substances, von Euler inferred that the active agents were made mainly in the prostate gland, so he named them "prostaglandins."

In 1940, I had a research appointment in the Pharmacology Department of Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, under the chairmanship of Professor C. C. Lieb. At that time, I was told that Dr Lieb as well as Dr R. Kurzrok, associate professor of pharmacology, were the original discoverers of biologic properties of an extract of semen from the prostate gland¹ published as early as 1930. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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