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...idea won medical-intellectual backing in the 18th century, is now suggested obliquely by Lolita and Humbert Humbert. Neither have they any use for rejuvenators such as the animal-testicle elixir developed by British Physiologist Brown-Sequard, the severing of the seminal vessels advocated around 1920 by the Austrian Steinach, or the monkey-gland transplants of the long-lived (1866-1951) Serge Voronoff...
Died. Eugen Steinach, 83, Viennese sex "rejuvenator," in Territet, Switzer land. After changing the sex of guinea pigs by transplantation of their sex glands, handsome Dr. Steinach went on to the problem of staving off old age, devised the "Steinach vasoligature" for stimulating the flow of hormones, called it reactivation. The claim that the method "re juvenated" failing men got thousands "Steinached" during the '205, was roundly denounced in medical circles. Thrice reactivated himself, vigorous Dr. Steinach wrote his last book (Sex and Life) in 1940, two years after the Nazis found him guilty of having had a Jewish...
...submitted to the Steinach operation. He went off to Majorca with a swami to translate the Upanishads-a rest somewhat addled when a visiting poetess, mad with joy over praise from Yeats, so conducted herself as to fall on a valuable dog for whose injuries the Peruvian Consul presented a bill...
Asked if he claimed his gland transplants rejuvenated people, famed Viennese Endocrinologist Eugen Steinach, vigorously celebrating his 80th birthday in Swiss exile, twinkled, tugged his mighty beard, shouted: "I cannot make a man younger than he is spiritually or physi cally...
Although Dr. Steinach was violently attacked by medical authorities ten years ago, hormone specialists today smile indulgently at the mention of his operation. They doubt his claim that four-fifths of his patients regained their virility, think suggestion was the more powerful factor. Certain it is that vasoligature does not relieve high blood pressure, angina pectoris (heart attack) or arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Although Steinach's critics admit a few outstanding cases where vitality was restored to younger men, the tissues of old men cannot be made to grow profusely, let alone pour forth hormones...