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CHAPTER SEVEN

an-inch long; it entails no wound infection, no confinement to bed; it is less serious than the extraction of a tooth . . . it does not impair the mechanism of erection and ejaculation."

X-ray sterilization has now a voluminous literature of its own, since its first, more or less accidental introduction. In 1909 Regaud and Nogier reported the successful sterilization of male rats by one application only of X-rays filtered through an aluminium plate. This left no injury of any sort.[1]

Schäfer's textbook on Endocrine organs generalizes upon the condition of male sterilization, and says: [2]"If the testicles are exposed to the action of X-rays, the seminiferous epithelium undergoes degeneration; although the interstitial tissue is not, at first at any rate, attacked."

Numerous recent advances in the study of X-ray and radium sterilization have been made, and their consideration is outside the scope of the present book. Reference might, however, be made to the interesting

  1. ↑ Cl. Regaud and Th. Nogier (1909): "Stérilization complète et définitive des testicules du Rat," Compt. rend. l'Acad. Sci., vol. cxlix, pp. 1398-1401, Paris, 1909.
  2. ↑ Ed, A. Schäfer (1916): "The Endocrine Organs, an Introduction to the Study of Internal Secretions," pp. ix, 156, London, 1916.

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