GLAND TREATMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 11

GLAND TREATMENT.

CURE FOR CRIME. AMERICAN EXPERT'S CLAIM. MURDERER "ON WAT TO RECOVERY." (Special.—Br Air Mall.) LONDON, April 8. One criminal in. four develops lawless tendencies because of glandular deficiencies, and can be treated and cured, declared Dr. Walter Timme, American professor of endocrinology in London this week.

Dr. Timme, who has just returned from a tour of Africa with his wife, has made a study of endocrinology—the glandular make-up of the individual—for 35 years. "Three-quarters of them want a short cut to wealth," he said, "but the rest fall into the type lacking in the pituitary and thymus glands. They go the easiest way, they have no judgment or control. This type is open to treatment. One case of mine concerned a young murderer of 19, who was sentenced to the electric chair. He was a decent lad, and I went to the prison to examine him. I found he was one of this group of criminals, but recommended that it would be dangerous to have him at large. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life, and I began treatment. "That was five years ago. Two or three years ago the boy had responded so well that he had written a story from prison and won a £100 prize from a magazine. He is now well on the way to recovery."