Word: steinached
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Kammerer's interest in gland surgery arises from the fact that he has collaborated actively with Professor Eugen Steinach, his chief in the department of biology at the University of Vienna, in Steinach's experiments on the retardation of senility (see MEDICINE, this issue). He is a firm believer in the Steinach methods, because, he says, he has seen them with his own eyes, and "always stands with those who are unjustly attacked...
...very popular exposition of the work of Eugen Steinach, Viennese Ponce de Leon (TIME, July 30, Oct. 8), has appeared from the pen of George F. Corners, a newspaperman, and from the press of Thomas Seltzer, who specializes in works of imaginative literature likely to incur the hostility of John S. Sumner and other censors...
...book is based on personal interviews and data furnished by Professor Steinach himself and several of his disciples, including Dr. Peter Schmidt, of Berlin; Dr. Harry Benjamin, of New York; Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, of the Institute for Sexual Science, Berlin, and Dr. A. S. Blumgarten, chief of the endocrine department of the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, who has written a sympathetic introduction. It will not settle the scientific status of "rejuvenation" methods, but will doubtless have a ready sale among romantic laymen and laywomen...
...Steinach is a bigger man than most of his detractors. He is a biologist and physiologist of great and reputable achievements, professor in the University of Vienna, and director of the Biological Institute of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. His palpable sincerity and devotion to scientific truth are qualities which have not been conspicuous among many who have traded on his reputation. It is not generally known that Steinach is not a surgeon himself and does not perform on human beings the operation that goes by his name. He has not, in fact, received any income from his discoveries...
...Corners gives some elementary account of the endocrine system. He differentiates between the various methods of "youthifying," i. e., vasectomy combined with vasoliga-ture (the Steinach operation), the implantation of tissue from gonads of other human beings or from animals (Voronoffs operation), the application of X-rays (useful with women), Kammerer's suggested methods of stimulation by electrical heat. He devotes some chapters to Steinach's rat experiments, as well as to numerous human cases from Lichtenstern, Schmidt, Chetwood (American urologist). Useful appendices are a glossary of technical terms in Steinach literature...