THE EFFECT OF TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN THE MENOPAUSE WITH ESTROGENIC HORMONE
HERBERT S. RIPLEY M. D.1,
EPHRAIM SHORR M. D.1, , and
GEORGE N. PAPANICOLAOU M. D.1
1 The New York Hospital and the Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine and Anatomy, Cornell University Medical College, New York City.
In the group of menopausal and post-menopausal depressions studied the beneficial effect of estrogenic hormone was confined to the relief of vasomotor symptoms with associated improvement in feelings of well-being. There was no evidence that the depressive illness as such was influenced specifically or its course shortened.
