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Sigmund Freud tackled the tabooed problem like a scientific poet, using words to dig up the roots of personality and family ties. His young friend Eugen Steinach went at the job in more orthodox fashion, in a laboratory, cutting up white rats to discover the secret of sexuality in glands and juices. Steinach became professor of physiology at the University of Vienna. There he got interested in the idea of staving off old age, and, after many years of research, devised a sex-gland operation to "reactivate" failing men, thrice "reactivated" himself. Like Freud, he was denounced as a charlatan...
After his friend Freud died last fall, 79-year-old Eugen Steinach puttered dismally about his Zurich refuge, giving hormone injections to barren cows. Deprived of his laboratory, he cried in despair: "What am I doing with my reactivated life?" Last week he tried to prove that in the past he had done great things. He published his first book addressed to laymen, an elegant volume called Sex and Life, garnished with pictures of dissected rats, rejuvenated dogs, and handsome Eugen Steinach...
Testicles consist of two types of tissue, seminal tubules, which produce spermatozoa, and interstitial cells, lying between the tubules. The interstitial cells produce sex hormones which tone up the whole body, stimulate masculine characteristics. Both types of tissue, according to Steinach, nourish at the expense of the other. Hence he conceived the idea of stimulating hormone flow by damming up the "antagonistic" seminal canals. This he did by ligating (tying off) and severing the main duct of the canals, known as the vas deferens. This "Steinach vasoligature" is a simple operation, takes only 20 minutes...
...book are glowing accounts of some of the thousands of men who were "Steinached" during the roaring '20s. They changed, says Steinach, from feeble, parched, dribbling drones to men of vigorous bloom who threw away their glasses, shaved twice a day, "dragged loads up to 220 lbs.," even indulged in such youthful follies as "buying land in Florida...
...years ago a Frenchified Russian, Dr. Serge Voronoff, and a Kansan who almost became Governor of his State, Dr. John Richard Brinkley, made fame & fortune by grafting monkey and goat glands into decrepit males. Later a Viennese, Dr. Eugen Steinach, finding gland grafts useless, got beneficial results by a small operation which prevented the gradual loss of male hormones, which make men virile. But the real advance in man's age-old search for virility began only: 1) when Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Germany, after treating 62,500 gallons of urine, succeeded in crystallizing one two-thousandths...