MAN OF 60 MADE YOUNG.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 12

MAN OF 60 MADE YOUNG.

"There are at this moment in France two old men to whom I have restored youthful vigor by grafting upon them certain glands taken from an ape. The operation is simple. A local anaesthetic is used. (Done cuts open the skin, introduces the tissue, and sews up the incision. Nature completes the process by assimilation."

This astounding statement was made to the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail recently by Dr. Serge. Voronoff, one of the leading experimental surgeons of the day and holder of the important post of director of Hie physiological laboratory of the College de France, whose recent lecture on rejuvenation by grafting caused 'much stir in Paris.

M. VovonolV had been telling me about his remarkable experiments on goats, and.had shown me pictures of an animal in. an advanced state of decrepitude and restored to youthful strength and habits after an operation.

"But I suppose the risk is too great," I said, •■■for these experiments to be intended to human beings?" M. Vovonofl' dropped his voice to the whispered tone of a man who speaks of tilings of solemn significance. "It has already been done in two cases," he answered, "and with entire success. One of the operations was performed seven and the other three months ago." "Who are those men?"

"I cannot tell you, for they are private patients of mine." Of the latter case M. Voronoff said it was too early to speak, but he gave me some details of the other. The man is BB years old, a Parisian prominent in public affairs, with vitality exhausted by a life of hard work. He' was a bowed, decrepit, weak man in senile decay. An operation was performed on him, and "now," said M. Voronoff, "though white hair and wrinkled skin certainly remain, he walks upright with a firm step and with brain cleat and active, sleeps well, and haa the appetite of a man in the prime of life. Ho has 'become, comparatively speaking, , joiing again "