Untitled

Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 2

Tlie idea of utilising glands taken from the body of a dead criminal to effect the reformation of a living one is being tried by Dr. Amos Squire, bead physician of Sing Sing Prison, New York. An habitual criminal in the prison is epileptic and mentally deficient, and the doctor formed the theory that his criminal instincts are the result of his physical defects, which, in turn, are the result of imperfect development of certain glands. Accordingly, after the execution of a healthy murderer, he extracted those glands from bis; body and transplanted them to the living body of the epileptic. The doctor reports that his physical condition lias already greatly improved, but it is too soon yet to know wbat the result will be on his mentalitv.