RECOVERY OF YOUTH
FKI3NCH. PKOFESKOR'S EXPERIMENT. Interviewed by the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" on his statement (briefly reported by cable a few weeks back) that Hie interstitial gland of the monkey grafted on an old man would bring back his exhausted force mid lost youth, and, therefore, prolong life, Dr. Serge Voronoff, Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Surgery at the College of France, gave further facts in support of his contention. Ho had. .lie said, previously »iji>crimentcd with' goats and rams twelve or fourteen years old, which age corresponds to seventy or eighty years in the age of a man. One old ram was in such a state of decrepitude as to suggest it had only a few weeks or months longer 'to live. Dr. Voronoff'took interstitial glands from a young rain and grafted them on to the old one, and two months later it underwent rejuvenation,, and gave nil the appearance of youthful vigour. Tho doctor adds: "Deprived of -tho giafted glands, the ram returned to its 6enilo condition. Can _ these experiments, which are conclusive on animals, produce the same result on mon? Certainly. It is from the monkey that we shall borrow the necessary tissues. What is tho use of experiments on animals if they cannot be utilised in lessening human miseries ?.-, lam convinced that physical and moral vigour can bo. restored to old men by grafting on them the interstitial glands of monkeys." ft is interesting to note that five years ogo Dr. Voronoff grafted tho thyroid bodv taken from a monkey on to a boy of fourteen, who was an idiot. The re- • fult was absolutely successful. Two years i later the boy became completely normal, ' nnd in 191* lie went into tho Army. .
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 8
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291RECOVERY OF YOUTH Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 8
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