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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Juice | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...French, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, three years ago indicated their daring to make such tests. What results, if any, they had, so far they have kept secret. Nearly three years ago, also, Dr. Serge Voronoff, gland grafter, implanted human female sex organs in Nora, happy chimpanzee and artificially impregnated her. Nora apparently conceived. But no baby was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ape Woman | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...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 if, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Age | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Paris fellow surgeons discreetly discussed a rumor that Dr. Voronoff has gone to the Near East to invigorate a very great patient indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Chimpanzee Present? | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...said that President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, called the Ghazi-"The Victorious"-but now somewhat debilitated by incessant, nightly champagne tippling, would confer with Dr. Voronoff in the inconspicuous city of Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Chimpanzee Present? | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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