Word: voronoffs
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...theme at the meeting last week of the French Association for the Advancement of Science. Alfred Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924). An extra sex gland grafted in young rams so increased their weight and hair-growing processes that they averaged 19 Ibs. heavier than two-gland rams; yielded half...
...Voronoff's three-glanded rams...
...Semashko, Soviet Commissar of Health, has been troubled by the thought that Lenin is dead, Trotzky is greying and the Soviets are not producing new brain power at an overwhelming rate. Seeking a remedy for this state of affairs he was last week reported to have visited Dr. Serge Voronoff, French gland specialist, and to have "assisted at a successful rejuvenation operation performed upon Klara Zetkin," 68, famed "Grandmother of German Communism" and member of the German Reichstag...
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...
...Page 15, RUSSIA, for an account of the alleged Voronoff rejuvenation of 68-year-old Klara Zetkin...