| Re: Gorilla Genes
In the 1950s there was a Swiss doctor who transplanted chimps glands to humans. He believed that humans died when their glands wore out so he replaced them. Including their sex glands! I've copied and pasted this.
There are conflicting reports of Voronoff's state when he died in 1951, at eighty-five. In Medical Blunders, Robert Youngson and Ian Schott wrote that "Voronoff lived to be ridiculed, but bore it with dignity." But Patrick McGrady, in The Youth Doctors, quoted a Swiss physician who knew the monkey-gland doctor as saying Voronoff was severely depressed near the end. Not because of what happened to him, the Swiss said — because of what may have happened to his patients because of him. Apparently, Voronoff feared that several of his grafts may have transferred syphilis from his apes to his human recipients. Voronoff was horrified by this thought, the Swiss said, and spent much of his final days in depressed isolation because of it. Only one thing is certain: depressed or not, the pioneer in the erection industry named Serge Voronoff died an extremely wealthy man. |