YOUTH RETURNS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1922, Page 5

YOUTH RETURNS.

USE OF MONKEY GLANDS. SURGEON’S EXPERIENCE. SUCCESS CLAIMED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 6. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail states that extraordinary scenes were ■witnessed at the French Congress on surgery. Dr. Voronoff, director of the laboratory oi experimental surgery in the College de France, originator of the idea of monkey gland grafting to rejuvenate old men, was thrown out of the Congress and prevented from staring his ideas. The expulsion was apparently due to a newspaper interview with Dr. Voronoff. The scene was one of great confusion. Dr. Voronoff and Professor Hartmann, a well-known surgeon, engaged in an excited argument, shouting and waving their hands. They were surrounded by dozens of famous surgeons, gesticulating. Finally, Dr. Voronoff was hustled out of doors. Later, interviewed by the Daily Mail, he recounted the communication which he desired to make to the Congress. He stated that he had practised the grafting of the interstital gland 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 of 59, who complained of ill-health and loss of memory. The graft took well, and the patient recovered full intellectual powers and his health was greatly improved. 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 cynocephal monkey he markedly improved, his virility returned, his body became well set up, his eye bright, and he resumed, his former life.

Another patient, an Englishman, named Arthur Evelyn Liardet. was the best proof of the efficacy of the treatment. He travelled to Paris to give evidence. He was 76 years of age and was operated on in 1921.

“Eight months after the operation,” said the surgeon, “I 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 30 years of his lost youth. Re-examined 20 months after the operation I found the change fully maintained. ’ THE EX-KAISER INTERESTED. WANTS TO BE YOUNG AGAIN. Received October 8, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 6. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express says news has reached Berlin from Doorn that the ex-Kaiser is anxious to undergo Dr. VoronofT’s monkey gland rejuvenation treatment, and inquiries in Berlin official circles confirm the news. Dr. Voronoff, however, says he has not yet received a request from the ex-Kaiser and questions whether the matter is not a joke. Nevertheless, he would not refuse to perform an operation, saying everybody, even the exKaiser, had a right to rejuvenation. Mr. Liardet, the seventy-six years old Englishman, who 'has come to Paris to attend the Faculty of Medicine, testifies to the efficacy of the treatment. He looks the picture of health and says fie feels twenty years younger.