s reacts to
poisons almost identically as human beings react, and the poison gases
of the war had precisely the same effect upon him as upon the soldiers.
So 1,500 goats did their bit in the war in an experimental way. These
points in his favor, and other similarities to man, are the reasons
which led me to select the goat as the best possible material in this
work. Goat-glands alone seemed to be harmonious and sympathetic when
transplanted into the human body. In other words, the hormones of goat
and man agree.

We still know less about the causes of hormones than the effects. On
account of the mutual tolerance of goat and human hormones the goat
gland speedily attaches a blood supply in the human body, and cell by
cell is replaced so that it soon functions as the original gland would
had it been present and normal. The new gland is also exceptional in
that it does not have to be placed near or at the location of the proper
human gland. It can be inserted in any place where it is not liable to
injury, even in the hip in men.[*]

It should be noted that I do not claim to make old men young again, or
that I have discovered the secret fountain of youth. I am engaged in the
practical work of giving health, normality and progeny to men and women
who have been cheated out of their natural heritage. I have named the
process "re-creative gland operation" in accordance with the belief now
general among genetists and anatomists that if the clock of time is ever
to be turned back for humanity it can only be through glandular
transplantations. Glands have proved much superior to any animal extract
or serum in this class of cases. Often in serums the poison elements are
retained, but not the nutritive. We use the whole goat gland, as a rule,
because we do not know in what part of it the hormones hide. The
attempted transplantations of kidneys have thus far failed because the
kidney product is waste matter, not live cells as in the case of the
interstitial glands.

[Footnote: Author's Note.--The date of this interview is more than
one year old, March, 1920. Today Dr. Brinkley implants the male
glands by incision in the acrotum of the man, and in no other
place whatever, having found this method of operation the most
sure in results. Today he uses only the male goat-glands for the
man, and only the female goat's ovaries for the woman.]

(From The Chicago Tribune, of date February 1, 1920.)

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