RESTORATION OF YOUTH.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4561, 9 May 1923, Page 3

RESTORATION OF YOUTH.

F/K.Tf ATSFiR’S “REJUVENATOR” IN LONDON. Dr. Burchardi, said to be one of a very limited number, of exponents an I practitioners of a new system of surgical treatment for the preservation and even the. restoration of youth, arrived in London recently from Vienna. In an interview with a Press representative he said he had come to London ’as a practitioner and not as a missionary. If invited to do so, he would be quite prepared to lecture to scientists z and practitioners on the new treatment, but his immediate .-purpose was to perform a number of operations- which he had undertaken. • Asked-what he claims to be able to .achieve, Dr. Burchardi said: ' I do not pretent to accomplish miracles, but I do claim to be able to preserve youth, with its capacities and its enin the .case of suitable subjects.” He and others, he said, had been enagged in experiments for something like twenty years, and those experiments had been made on animals. Actual- treatment, of men had been in operation for about three years,-and of women for five years. . “In all the human cases operated upon-’-glandular - transformation in the case of males and a secret x-ray treatment of females”' —he added, no? one has been ,a failure. All the cases are still -enjoying very great benefits. ' Under this treatment remarkable transformations have been .effected. Sunken cheeks have beep raised, looks restored, and a general, air o* physical' and mental alertness produced. Youth has been restored both to face and figure.” - Dr. Burchardi said : “Much depends upon the state of the patient. If the . body is quite worn out, of course, I can do nothing, but if it is still susceptible to the operation I can hope to preserve the qualities.of youth for periods of from five to twenty years. It depends largely on the state of the patient in each individual case. The identical operation which he intended to perform in London, he added, had recently’ been performed upon the ex-Kaiser. / “In some cases, when. are attacked by premature senility, the operation, has not,’ only- effected mark-ed-improvement in appearance,” Dr. Burchardi said, “but . there has been wonderful- restoration of mental an-1 physical faculties. Even in cases of. men of 65 and 70 'years of age the operation has been followed by rejuvenation' of appearance in every respect and mental and physical capacities largely restored. A ‘new lease of life’ has been given, as you express it here. < “Striking changes- in the outward -appearance of -women patients have been effected. .Signs of weariness -and weakness have;; disappeared. The operation on men is quite simple and harmless. Only a local anaesthetic is necessary. After the operation the patient should lay in bed for about three days, and be kept reasonably quiet for eight or nine days. For men there is actual, operation-for glandular s transformation, but < the x-ray treatment has been found more suitable for women.” ' ' Experiment had ’ established the efficacy of the varying treatment according to sex. He would not attempt to explain the operation, but he might convey x some idea of ft. by 'analogy. Suppose’the existence of a pair of veins, one, of which hgfi become useless and- -the ether not brought into effective play removal of t,he useless! portion and the. bringing of the .untried organism into effective-use would counteract the process of deterioration which had been in progress and.would restore lost’functions. There’was no transference of glandular substance ffom without ?and no injection of serum, but the ' operation. included the removal of-organisms which were no longei useful. .