that the goat-gland operation would keep me from getting any
older?" To this kind of inquiry Dr. Brinkley makes a stereotyped reply,
something as follows: "If you are today in good health I should not
advise the goat-gland operation, but would advise it in your case as
soon as you have passed the change of life, in ten or fifteen years from
now." To the writer he said, "I cannot conscientiously advise this woman
to submit to this operation, because I don't know that the glands would
advantage her in any way. They might, or they might not. I don't know.
It is therefore experimental work, and I cannot take her money for an
experiment. I must have something definite in the way of experience to
go upon. There must be some evident condition of ill-health to be set
right. But, on the other hand, though I will not advise these people to
take the gland operation, there may be something in her idea that the
glands will arrest age and hold it back. I have never been in a position
where I could afford to experiment on young and healthy human beings,
and this point can only be settled by such experiment upon healthy and
young human beings. I should say at a guess that the operation would do
her no good, but you understand that this is a guess only. I do not know
anything about it. All such things as this we shall learn by degrees by
further experiment. At present I am kept busy attending to cases of real
sickness, or defined conditions of arrest of function, where I have
experience to guide me in saying that the gland-operation will be of
benefit, but, if I could afford to perform a few of these experimental
operations for nothing, at no cost to the patient, I should be glad of
the chance. There is so much yet to be learned in this work."

CHAPTER IV

DR. BRINKLEY'S OWN STORY

The +New York American+, issue of March 14, 1920, carried the following
articles:

+GOAT GLANDS SUCCESSFUL+

+Head of Hospital Tells of the Curing of Sterility
by the New Discovery and of Control of Sex
Through Simple Operation--Disease
and Insanity Also Banished.+

+By Dr. W. H. Ballou+

Dr. J. R. Brinkley, head of the Brinkley-Jones Hospital and Training
School for Nurses at Milford, Kansas, has now furnished to the
scientific world what are termed "ample proof cases" that by
implantation of the fresh interstitial glands of the goat sterile people
may bear children of either sex desired. Already the town is filling up
with chi