THE GLAND TREATMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19001, 25 October 1923, Page 8

THE GLAND TREATMENT.

FROM CHIMPANZEE TO YOU. Dr Leonard Williams believes there are great possibilities for mental rejuvenation in Toronoffs system of gland transplantation. “Voronoff has operated on over 30 cases, of which the last 23 have been brilliantly successful,” he declares in a summary of tho present position. He explains that in the popular mind the ■wrong object of this “monkey gland” treatment has been stressed. It is not merely a rejuvenation which has been the goal, but "his objec! has been the prolongation of life and th e restoration of physical and mental efficiency.” From ono of his patients, a literary rfian, Voronoff received the most convincing expression of gratitude and assurance that the operation had restored all the energies and capacities of his prime. By a aeries of over 150 experiments on goats and rams, he declares that Voronoff conclusively proved that life can b e prolonged and senility warded off. Ho grafted an additional gland on to a gcat, and obtained, an extraordinary result. • “ The beast’s horns grew to twice the normal length of the species, likewise its hair, especially its beard. . . . The head and skin have been preserved to confound tho incredulous.” „ Applying his knowledge and experience to grafting experiments on men, he selected the anthropoid apes as being nearest to man on the evolutionary tree, and the results have more than realised his original hopes. “ There was a natural fear this this method of thrusting new wine into old bottles might be attended with the proverbial disastrous consequences. But the human body is not a glass bottle, and Voronoff’s lesrilt-Ji now suggest very strongly that this hvand'of new wine renovates, the very bottles themselves.” -:Dr Williams says the perfected operation offer* .no risks and promises clear benefits.