NO MORE MONKEYS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 7

NO MORE MONKEYS

REJUVENATION WORK A WARTIME RESTRICTION SYDNEY, July 31. Rejuvenation of Australians by the grafting of monkey glands will be impossible about a year from now, unless the war ends in the meantime. Dr. H. Leighton Jones, Australia’s sole disciple of Voronoff, has used in the past 10 years more than 100 specimens of the “macacus rhesus,” imported from India. Generally, each operation costs the life of one monkey. Last May he obtained six monkeys for his laboratory at Dora Creek, but. because monkeys are “non-essential, imports,” these are the last he will be allowed for the duration of the war. They brought his stock up to six males and six females, costing £2O each. Only six men and six women, therefore, will be able to receive rejuvenation treatment. Almost the full dozen patients have “booked” already. Of over 100 operations, Dr. Leighton Jones claims that all have been successful, although some have been more so than others. Only in the past two years has Dr. Leighton Jones had women patients. A rush of them was just starting when his supply of monkeys was cut out. Dr. Leighton Jones, now 72, but amazingly youthful, is said to have been treated himself.