GLAND GRAFTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 October 1922, Page 12

GLAND GRAFTING.

* "* 7—* DOCTOR DISTURBS A dONFER--1 -, - ENCE,

CLAIMS WONDERFUL SUCCESS

vi O* 'ibis—PitiiSs 4.oau«JxAoiO> UOP* jti(iHT Received Oct. 7, 10.10 a.m. " -/■*--, . , LONDON, Oct. 6. - ? ' - - Thet Daily Mail's Paris eorrespondi_ _ ent states that* extraordinary scenes * were witnessed at the French. Congress I of Surgeons. Dr. Voronoff, director of ' the laboratory of experimental surgery | at the College de France, originator o£' i the idea" of monkey gland grafting to / rejuvenate old men, was thrown o"ut of . the congress and prevented from' stat- '■".. . ing his ideas. .'His expulsion- was apparently due •&> a newspaper interview with' Dr. Vorono^E., The scene was one I °f great confusion r- Dr. Voronoff and * Professor Hartmann, a well-known, / aurgeon, engaged in an t excited argu- \ ment, shouting' and waving their Hands. They were surrrounded by dozens1- of famous surgeons gesticulat- , ing.. Finally Voronoff.was hustled out ' qf doors. Later, interviewed by the Daily Mail, he recounted the ' communication which he desired to make to the congress. * He' stated that he - had practised' the grafting of inferstital glands of large apes, on seven different male patients. The first experiment was made in 1920.. The fim two were unsuccessful. The third graft was carried out on a man of '59, who complained of ill-health and loss of memory.. The graft took well, and he recovered his" full intellectual powers, and Yas health was greatly improved. l"he fourth experiment was on a man who was showing every sign of senile v ' decay and was unable to express his \ v .thoughts. After grafting the glands of ' i a large cynocephal mtaikey he inarked- -' Jy improved, and his virility returned. His body became well set up, his eye N ' bright, and- he resumed his former . t * life. \ Another patient, an. Englishman / named \Arthur Everlyn Liardett, wag " " ,' the best proof^of the efficacy of the . •* treatment. He travelled to Paris to t testify that he was aged 76, and was operated on in 1921. "Eight months . after the operation I was stupefied to ' , see the change. He had .lost half his ,' , embonpoint. His aspect was cheerful, his movements active, and his «yes' clear; he had certainly recovered 30 ( years of his lost youth. Re-examined twenty months after the operation^ it ~ was found that, the change, was fully maintained.^-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Awn.