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...Lorenz has had himself rejuvenated. He had the operation performed five years ago, some six months before his last visit to the U. S. Dr. Victor Blum did it in Vienna. Dr. Harry Benjamin could have done it for him in Manhattan. This was the Steinach operation...
Concerning glandular rejuvenation and the theories upon which the famed Steinach operation is performed, Dr. R. M. Oslund of the University of Illinois offered evidence that, of the two types of cells produced by the reproductive glands, it is the germ cells, and not the interstitial cells, that generate the eye-brightening, step-quickening, youth-giving hormones...
Rejuvenation. "Neither the Steinach nor the Voronoff method promises much for the rejuvenation of old women† . . . . In May, 1921, a man, 72 years of age, was scheduled to lecture in London on the subject, 'How I Was Made 20 years Younger by Eugen Steinach.' He was found dead in his bed the morning before the lecture...
...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...