The use of androgens in the menopause and other gynecic disorders.

The use of androgens in the treatment of gynecic disorders has had few adherents because of the belief generally held that androgen administration to the female patient is antiphysiologic and antipharmacologic. Testosterone in physiologic doses complements estrogens and is synergestic rather than contraphysiologic. Physiologic doses of testosterone may be used to advantage in the management of the menopause, sexual dysfunction, lichen planus vel atrophicus, fibrocystic disease of the breast, and sexual infantilism resulting from hypopituitarism as well as in several other disorders.