DR SERGE VORONOFF

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 April 1934, Page 5

DR SERGE VORONOFF

MARRIED AT BUCHAREST A YOUTHFUL BRIDE (United Presß Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BUCHAREST, 27th April. Dr Serge Voronolf, aged OS years, married Fraulein Hilda. Seliwaetz, aged 21 years, an auburn-haired cousin of Madame Lupeseu. The. marriage is a love match the outcome of a friendship begun in Paris in 1927, when Madame Lupeseu introduced them. So brief is fame that many people have completely forgotten the nine days’ wonder which the British Press made out of the “monkey gland” claims of Dr Serge Voronolf, the Russian surgeon and physiologist, some ytars ago. But lie was in the news again two years ago with a reported claim that it is possible for men to live to the age of J -10 it certain lines ol treatment are followed and served to recall that Dr Voronolf won world fame by his gland experiments years ago. Dr Voronolf was .horn (Hi years ago, was educated in Paris, studied medcine there, and became chief surgeon in the Russian hospital. In 1917 he was made chief surgeon in the Military Hospital in Paris, and after the World War he was appointed director of the biological laboratory of the Eeole des Halites Etudes. Later lie was appointed director of experimental surgery of tile Station I‘liysiologique of the College of France. His fame rests on work which he began soon after the war, lint it is not generally known by laymen that he is not the originator of the theory with which 1 1 is mime is associated, ft was BrownSequurd, who discovered that gland secretions are the same in animals as in liiimun beings, and this scientist applied his discovery to practical purposes by using animal secretions to supplement dclieieneios in human beings. Voronolf’s work lias been the extension of (ids principle: be bus grafted healthy animal glands upon the human body. It was his considerable skill as (i surgeon and liis opportunities for surgical work during the war which prepared him for this delicate task, and lie has in later years been engaged in developing by experinu nt a theory of the relation of gland secretions to senility. He has also carried out a series of experiments on livestock.