AN EXTRA GLAND

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 93, 17 March 1927, Page 2

AN EXTRA GLAND

4 P.M. EDITION.

GRAFTED ON SHEEP. YORONOFF’S EXPERIMENTS. INVITATION TO NEW ZEALAND. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 17, 1.45 p.m. PARIS, March 16. Dr. Voronoff, the monkey gland expert engaged by the French Government in research work, announces that tire experiments in 1924 of grafting an extra gland in healthy sheep were a revelation* but the expenses were heavy. It is now discovered that the offspring of grafted sheep are eight pounds heavier at five months than lambs from sheep not treated. Dr. Voronoff proposes to graft glands upon the offspring of the treated sheep, not with a view to breeding sheep as big as oxen, butvto obtaining the maximum of wool. Dr. Voronoff lias been requested to send an expert to New- Zealand to give instruction in his methods. He adds: “Sheep which usually die when fourteen years old when treated live to twenty, years. Instead of enduring old age for four years they die suddenly in a week. The same thing would probably occur with human beings.” Dr. Voronoff is going to Algeria in a fortnight to experiment on a Government ranch of 3000 sheep.—A. and N.Z. cable.