Catholics Endorse Monkey Glands

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 11

Catholics Endorse Monkey Glands

VORONOFF REPLIES ATTACK BY DEAN INGE (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) Reed. 12.15 p.m. PARIS, Monday. Professor Serge Voronoff, replying to Dean Inge’s suggestion that monkey-gland treatment is an insult to religion, points out that Catholics highly endorse the treatment. “I have performed operations on three priests,” he says. "One ordered a special Mass as an appreciation. I lectured at Toulouse in response to the Catholic University’s invitation. The first monkeys ever received from Africa were shipped to me by a Catholic missionary." Toward the close of a sermon in Westminster Abbey Dean Inge said he regretted that there was a foreigner being honoured and applauded in this country to-day, whose theories and schemes were revolting to all pureminded people. It was disgraceful. The dean was preaching on the subject of “Holiness.” The congregation waited expectantly for the name of the foreigner to be divulged, but the dean closed without mentioning it. Later he informed interviewers that the man he meant was Professor Voronoff, originator of the monkey-gland treatment. “It is monstrous that this man’s claims to be able to extend life by the interassociation of apes and human beings should be listened to,” said the dean.