CURED AN IDIOT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 4

CURED AN IDIOT

GLAND DOCTOR'S MISSION MIRACLE OF THYROID "BRAIN-OIL" [liy Air Mail—Special Correspondent! j LONDON. 29th October Dr. Serge Voronoff. high priest of re- I juvenation. who claims that by monkey J gland injections man can add many years to his normal life, spoke in Lon- j don this week of his new task of making dull children brainy, of giving intelligence to imbeciles. The 69-year-old doctor, who stands 6ft 3in, talked about his work with children whose development both physically and mentally. had been arrested, for whom no cure was known "What I have done others can do.” he said "What is certain is that a vast number of unfortunate children may be restored to health and intelligence by this method of grafting.’’ Such arrested development is caused, Voronoff' said, by failure of the thyroid gland to function. He called the thyroid "brain-oil.’ His first case, details of which have just been given to the surgeons of France, goes back to 1915. A twenty-year-old youth had never grown up. stood only three feet six. “was, in fact, a complete idiot.” No apes were available for grafting so the boy's mother gave the left half of her own thyroid gland. Another graft with monkey gland was made later. In two years the youth looked and was a normal intelligent man. "That simian thyroid graft truly worked a miracle." declared the surgeon.