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ROBERT M. FRUMKIN Ohio State University Columbus...
...colonel now feels fine, commands his regiment, enjoys a normal sex life. (He is sterile; Dr. Frumkin will not try to connect the delicate sperm-carrying tubules...
Instead of planting the gland in the scrotum, Dr. Frumkin put it in a pocket in the colonel's thigh where its veins and arteries could be linked with the big vein and artery of the leg, thus insuring a good blood supply. The results were spectacular. The colonel's piping voice went down, his red beard sprouted anew, the fat around his hips disappeared, and he began to take an interest in women again...
...operation on the colonel, Dr. Frumkin got much the same results that can be achieved by regular hormone injections or by pellets of slow-dissolving hormones implanted under the skin (TIME, Oct. 3, 1938). Many U.S. doctors say that such a grafted gland will inevitably wither & die after, at most, four years...
...Frumkin hopes his colonel may prove the greybeards wrong, but admits that only time can tell...