THE NEW TREATMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1920, Page 3

THE NEW TREATMENT

[aUSTUALIAN & N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION J (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. Connie Ediss, the actress is the first prominent person in England to undergo thyroid gland treatment, interviewed, she said she Avas feeling run down after her return from Australia and a doctor suggested thyroid. Describing, operation!, she said she felt as though a red hot poker was under her skin. Later she revived and felt she must bo on the move, being full of strength and energy. “I scamper over the fields and Avant to climb trees, likle a monkdy. I don’t feel anything like fifty.” YOUTH IN 15 MINUTES. NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Mr J. J. Tobias, Chancellor of the Chicago LaAv School, is one of the happiest men in the United States to-day, for, although 71, be lias found the fountain of youth through the transplanting of the interstitial glands made famous by Voronoff. But Dr J. R. Brinkley, of Milford (Kansas), who performed the operation, has no use for monkeys, like his Paris colleague. He obtained ' the essential gland from the more homely goat. Dr patients include a judge, an alderman, a realty man, and a journalist, but these, so far, have shrunk from publicity. Not so Chancellor Tobias, avlio, throwing out his chest aiid squaring his shoulders told an interviewer: “I feel 25 years younger. I’m a neiv man, full of ‘pep,’ strong, healthy, and ready to go on Avitli my Avork. I was ill, old, and played out, but the operation has revivified me.” The chancellor added in a serious vein: “There has been levity over the neAVs of gland operations, but the method should he treated Avith the greatest respect and admiration.’ Dr Brinkley says: “The operations are not painful. There is a simple incision ; no part of the body is removed, the goat-gland is simply planted to take the place of the old one. Fifteen^ to 20 minutes is all the time required.