The Goat-gland Transplantation: As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and WomenFlower, Sydney Blanshard
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The Goat-gland Transplantation: As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women
Flower, Sydney Blanshard
Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
+Successful on Women.+ Proof that the operation has been successful on
women as well as men makes the story of increased interest. Until now it
has been the general conception that the operation was successful on men
only. A Chicago woman is now supremely happy because, after years of
hoping, the operation has made it possible for her to become a mother.
Five months ago, Chancellor Tobias was, in his own words, played out.
His years of teaching in the Chicago Law School had reduced his
vitality.
Chancellor Tobias went to Dr. Brinkley's hospital and submitted to the
operation in order to relieve arterial congestion in the brain, caused
by two attacks of influenza, a year apart. So serious had become his
condition and so severe the attacks of vertigo and high blood pressure,
that his attending physician informed him he was in imminent danger of
death. The planting of the interstitial glands in Chancellor Tobias'
body relieved the congestion and fully eliminated the cause.
+Purged of All Ills.+ Today he has dropped the years from his shoulders,
purged his body and brain of ills, and stands revivified.
"I feel like a youth again," the aged chancellor said today. "I'm a new
man."
The stories of the other Chicagoans who have been benefited by the
operation read like fiction. They were ill, they were old, they
apparently were beyond the skill of the surgeon's knife, or spiritual
hope. Now from their own lips come paeans of glorification for restored
vitality and youth, all due to the humble goat and the surgical skill of
a country surgeon.
+Tobias' Own Story.+ Today I called at the law school in the Monadnock
Building to see Chancellor Tobias and get the story from his own lips.
The reports seemed too rosy. The facts seemed overstated. The results
appeared to me unduly magnified. But here was a prominent lawyer who had
the operation performed. Here was assurance there would be no buncombe
from him.
An alert, peppy, gray-haired man sprang up to greet me, his eyes, the
eyes of youth, his step firm and sprightly, his handclasp steady and
strong. And yet he was 71 years old!
"Do you really feel younger?"
+Twenty-five Years Younger.+ Chancellor Tobias threw out his chest,
squared his shoulders,--and smiled. "I feel twenty-five years younger.
I'm a new man, strong, and good for twenty years of work," he replied.
"I was ill, old, and played out, but the operation has completely
revivified me."
"How does it feel to have been old, and then become young again?"
"Glorious!"
+Was "Played Out."+ And here is Chancellor Tobias' story of the fountain
of youth.
"After teaching for twenty-five years in the Chicago Law School," he
said. "I was played out. I suffered intense headaches. My eyesight began
failing. There was a constant ringing in my ears. Dizziness came with
increasing regularity. Mentally and physically I was an old man. Then I
heard of Dr. Brinkley."
Chancellor Tobias went to Milford, Kansas, as a last hope in March of
this year.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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