REJUVENATION TESTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 4

REJUVENATION TESTS

SYDNEY INVESTIGATIONS. DOCTOR’S RESEARCH WORK. EXTENDVE EXPERIIMENTS. SYDNEY, Jan. 24. The Rolling Research Institute at Roa! North Shore Hospital, Sydney, may investigate treatment lor rejuvenation and, if so, chimpanzees may be imported. The Rolling already has world-wide recognition, its repurls regarding disease and foodstuffs having attracted considerable attention in England, Europe and America. To further the scheme which has been planned in regard to research at the Rolling Institute a new animal hous-e has been built and is about to be furnished. It will contain more than 20 monkeys, 500 mice, and a large number of wallabies, rabbits and guinea pigs. ‘‘lf the Rolling Institute takes up work on rejuvenation, 1 shall be glad < :o help if the director wishes it,” said the Australian disciple of the Voronoff treatment, Dr. Leighton Jones, who has ' practised the Voronoff method for some years at Eraring, on the shores of Lake Macquarie, and has treated 50 men. “One of the most interesting cases to come under my notice will be treated on Saturday, when one of the leading; men iu public affairs in Australia will' be the subject of an operation,” he said. “The incision for the monkey gland will be. as usual, very small, and the patient should be out of bed iu four days and able to leave my private hospital in ten days. Included among my past patients are 15 men in New South Wales. The rest have come from all the other States and New Zealand. My two visits to Paris to consult Voronoff had very good results and in correspondence received from him by every mail 1 learn more of his work. “Aly stock of Abyssinian baboons are in fine physical condition, with voracious appetites. They live on tomu- , toes, potatoes, lucerne, fruits, melons, pumpkins, and green vegetables, and are specially fond of tigs. The cost for their upkeep is high. They have facilities for exercise in their gigantic cages. ’ ’ Dr. Leighton Jones says he has received some interesting news of the treatment from Japan, and will leave in March for that country. He will also visit Singapore -and Borneo to negotiate for the supply of baboons, chimpanzees and other lypcs of monkeys.