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Association for the Study of the Internal Secretions (ASIA, after 1952 the Endocrine Society) founded in NYC: “Yet it should be recalled that endocrinology was still highly controversial when the ASIS was created. . . . Early organ therapy had been branded quackery and many reckoned hormone therapy, exploited by the ‘endocrinologists,’ was not much better” (Nordlund, 89).