WONDERFUL OPERATIONS

Otaki Mail, 11 October 1922, Page 3

WONDERFUL OPERATIONS

REMARKABLE OPERATIONS DESCRIBED. London, October 6. The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent states extraordinary scenes were witnessed at the French Congress of Surgery. Dr. VaronoH, Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Smgery, College de France, originator of the idea of monkey gland grafting to rejuvenate old men, was thrown out of the 'Congress and prevented'from stating nis ideas. The expulsion was apparently due to a newspaper interview with Dr. Voronoff. The scene was one of great confusion. Dr. Voronofl and Professor Hartmami, a well known surgeon, engaged in an excited argument, shouting and waving their hands. They were surrounded by dozens ol famous surgeons ges ticulating. Finally Voronoff was hustled out of door*.

Later, he was interviewed by the Daily Mail. He recounted the communication which he desired to make to the Congress. He stated he had practised the grafting of the interstital glands of large apes on seven different male patients. The first experiment was made in 1920. The first two were unsuccessful. The third graft was carried out on a man ol 59, who complained" of ill-health and loss of memory. The graft took well and |he recovered his lull intellectual powers. The fourth experiment was on a man who was showing every 'sign of senile decay and was unable to express his thoughts. After grafting the glands of a large cy'nocephal monkey he markedly improved. His virility returned, and his body became well set up, his eye bright, and he resumed his former life. Another patient, an Englishman named Arthur lively Liardette, was the best proof of the ethcacy of the method. He travelled to Paris to testify that he Was aged 7G and was operated on in 1921. "Eight months after the operation," said Dr. Voronoff, "1 was stupefied to see the change. He had lost half his embonpoint, his aspect was cheerful, his movements active, his eyes clear. He had certainly recovered thirty years of lost youth. Be-examined 20 months after the operation I found the change fully maintained.''