The idea of utilising glands taken from the body of a dead criminal '.o effect the reformation of a living one is being tried by Dr. Amos Squire, head physician of Sing Sing Prison, New York. An habitual criminal in the prison is epileptic and mentally deficient, and the doctor formed the theory that his criminal instincts are the result of his physical defects, which, in turn, are the result of imperfect development of certain glands. Accordingly, after the execution of a healthy murderer, Ke extracted those glands ftom his body and transplanted them in the living body of the epileptic. The doctor reports that his physical condition has already greatly improved, but it is top soon yet to know what the result will be on his mentality. For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4448, 2 August 1922, Page 2
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135Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4448, 2 August 1922, Page 2
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