Dalton, Katharina Dorothea Kuipers

Dalton, Katharina Dorothea Kuipers
▪ 2005

      British gynecologist (b. Nov. 11, 1916, London, Eng.—d. Sept. 17, 2004, Poole, Dorset, Eng.), identified the symptoms suffered by women before and during their menstrual cycles as those of an actual physical disorder, which she called premenstrual syndrome, or PMS. Dalton noticed that the migraines she normally suffered every month prior to menstruation disappeared during her first pregnancy and that premenstrual symptoms endured by many of her patients disappeared during their pregnancies. She undertook an intensive research program with endocrinologist Raymond Greene; in the early 1950s the pair published their results. Dalton found that test doses of natural progesterone administered to herself and her patients brought swift relief from PMS symptoms. She established (1957) the world's first PMS clinic in London, which she ran for 40 years, and authored more than 100 papers on PMS.

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