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Medical history is built on traditions from the Middle East (Egyptian, Jewish, Arabian), the Far East (mostly Chinese), and Europe, with Greek, Roman, medieval, and modern elements. Because of geographical distances, language or religious communication barriers, or rejection of older traditions, the European medical community had to rediscover facts which were known in ancient Egypt, China, or Arabia a long time ago. Whether an endocrinological profession was known in ancient times may be doubted.
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Also known as luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone or follicle-stimulating-hormone-releasing hormone
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Kleine, B., Rossmanith, W.G. (2016). History of Hormones and Endocrinology. In: Hormones and the Endocrine System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15060-4_2
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