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...issue a categorical and sharp denial of these absurd and irresponsible stories. . . . I not only authorize, I implore you to protest energetically in my name against the ridiculous distortions of my scientific work by popular journalism, which represent me as an inventor of a specific against idiocy."-Dr. Eugen Steinach, to the New York Times Vienna correspondent last week...
...Steinach, 67, at his summer home near Vienna, was indignant and excited because again one of his scientific investigations had been incorrectly popularized. Were he a young medical graduate, he would have to fear for his professional reputation. As it is, he is a recognized endocrinologist and his vexation was against further obfuscation of the unlearned...
Previous misinterpretation was on his reactivation work. Before Serge Voronoff of Paris developed a sex gland transplantation technique. Dr. Steinach had worked in that field. It led him to ligating the vas deferens in men and injecting female sex hormones into women, procedures which reactivated their entire systems. Journalists incorrectly called this rejuvenation...
...effect (if any) of artificial rejuvenation. Said he: "We should admit that no great imagination has been used so far in the development of those [rejuvenation] treatments. t is assumed that by grafting glands rejuvenation can take place. But it is very interesting to observe that neither [Eugene] Steinach* or [Serge] Voronoff or any of the men who have been interested in rejuvenation have attempted to verify whether or not their method of treatment has brought about a real result. After all, what should be done if an operation is performed on a man 60 years old is to ascertain...
...Vienna last week Dr. Steinach claimed that he had completed many successful experiments in rejuvenating human organs by injecting a new gland extract. The juice, called "progynon," is reported taken from animal brains. Details are not yet available...