48
VII. PROFESSOR STEINACH AND THE RAT 60
VIII. A WEEK AT DR. BRINKLEY'S HOSPITAL 66
IX. SUMMARY 72
X. "THE SPARK OF LIFE" 78

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Though dealing exactly with a surgical subject, this book is a layman's
word to laymen. It is an attempt to say to the general public a few
things about this amazing work of Dr. J. R. Brinkley, of Milford,
Kansas, which he is debarred from saying for himself in this simple
form. He has under consideration a book of his own covering the subject
of Goat-Gland Transplantation, his experiments, successes, failures,
theories, and conclusions, which will probably be issued during the
winter of 1922, and in that book he expects to treat his subject
exhaustively with full medical and surgical detail, in a manner
acceptable to the medical profession. But, in the meantime, no
satisfactory effort has been made to tell the story to the general
public, except in the fragmentary form of occasional newspaper notices.
The author feels that the chief interest in this matter abides with the
patient rather than with the practitioner, or, if not the chief
interest, at least an equal interest. It seems proper, therefore, that
the subject should be briefly dealt with at this time, while it is yet
in its infancy, in such a manner that the general public may grasp the
essentials of what is being done in America in this new application of
endocrinology. Some attention is paid to the pioneer work of Dr. Frank
Lydston of Chicago in the transplanting of human glands into human
beings, but rather by way of emphasizing the fact that Dr. Brinkley,
with the choice of human, monkey, goat, or sheep glands before him,
chose the goat-glands in preference to any other for his field of
experiment and operation, and has never for a moment regretted his
choice, or seen any reason to alter it.

Without any wish to enter upon a controversy, the author is impelled to
take some notice of the statement of Dr. Serge Voronoff of Paris, who,
during his recent visit to the United States, announced that he pinned
his faith almost exclusively to the glands of the anthropoid apes as
most suitable for transplantation into human beings, while he lamented
the natural scarcity of obtainable material. Dr. Voronoff is credited
with having performed over 150 transplantations upon rams, but none
whatever of goat-gl