so taught that arterio-sclerosis
was another disease of old age, and all men were heir to it. However, we
are beginning to awaken to a few things. We are approaching the dawn of
a new day. We are beginning to understand the whys and wherefores. While
I have been criticized and called everything under the sun, except an
angel, I expected as much, and I am ready to face the world with my
facts; not theories. I have a long and hard fight before me yet.

[Illustration: THE TOGGENBURG GOATS]

The cures that I have effected by gland transplantation up to the
present time are enough to justify me for all of my work and efforts
along this new line of science. Should I never operate again, I feel
justly repaid and know that I have started something that will go on and
on and live forever. Gland transplantation for the cure of disease
within the next ten years will be as common as the removal of a diseased
appendix is now. You can hardly pick up a daily paper without reading an
account of some surgeon performing a wonderful operation of
transplanting bone or tissue from some animal to replace that which was
diseased in the human. Why not borrow what we need from the animal? We
use their flesh for food. We also use their gland substances in the
fresh or dried form to supply our bodies with whatever we may not
possess.

My first efforts in gland transplantation were directed towards the cure
of sterility. A man came to me who had been impotent for sixteen years.
Every known means had been used in his case. My experiments in the use
of glands from animal to animal, led me to believe that if the gland
from a goat could be transplanted into the human body this impotency and
sterility could be overcome. This man was willing to try anything as he
was 46 and his wife was 42. They were very anxious for a male child.
Twelve months after the transplantation I delivered his wife of a
10-pound baby boy, who is alive and well today. In appreciation of what
the goat glands had done for them they named the baby "Billy." He lives
within four miles of me now. This first case being a wonderful success
encouraged me to experiment with humans on a larger scale. Willing
subjects were not easy to obtain. After obtaining, it was difficult to
operate. The operation or experiment could not be performed in any of
the general hospitals. Ethics as well as country and little town gossip
forbid such work. It was necessary for me to build a hospital of my own