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Evidence pro and con on the vexed question of sex gland "rejuvenation" as practiced by Eugen Steinach of Vienna, and Serge Voronoff of Paris (TiME, July 30) continues to pile up. Some men who have undergone the Steinach operation have been vastly benefited, according to themselves and their surgeons. Others have admittedly received no benefit and some have died. A public discussion in The New York World between Dr. Morris Fishbein, associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, and Dr. Harry Benjamin, of New York, a disciple of Steinach, brought out several characteristic differences...
...Steinach (Austrian gland man) has also been mentioned, and outstanding achievement is notoriously no guarantee of jury actions, as witness the fact that Thomas Hardy, generally conceded the greatest living English man of letters, has yet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, not to mention Conrad, Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie, Bennett, Wells, while second-rate Spittelers, Heyses and unknown Scandinavians are deified. Nevertheless, should he receive the medicine prize, Dr. Banting will be in distinguished company. It has been awarded 16 times since the year 1901. In 1906 and 1908 it was divided between two men, so that 18 medical...
...Steinach's operation, no new material is transplanted. He discovered that if the reproductive function of the gonads is stopped by removing part of their duct (called the "vas deferens"), or even by tying it off, the reproductive cells atrophy and the interstitial cells multiply and occupy the space, greatly increasing the flow of the hormones. The effect is to turn the gonad into an exclusively ductless gland. The same general results are produced as in the case of transplantation. Steinach himself makes no extravagant claims. He calls the effect " arrest within modest limits of the process of senility...
...have shown that the process cannot be continued indefinitely. The two gonads may be operated on in turn, and then new cells may be transplanted, but each time the return of senility is more acute, and the vitality burns out more quickly. So that human beings who contemplate the Steinach or Voronoff operations may find their last state worse than their first. Other critics have pointed out that the sex glands are only one factor in the regulation of old age, and that for complete arrest of senility, all the ductless glands would have to be renewed, not to mention...
...Algonquin ? ? Mr. . Conrad's modesty ? Housman's Last Poems?an antique bitterness?laconic magnificence?the Clean Books' Bill and Justice Ford's unmarried daughter?wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all??Gertrude Atherton?Black Oxen?hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will not be applied to various literary prominencies?books about sex?a few books not about sex?Sabatini and the gorgeous return of cloak-and-sword...