LANDS GIVE BABIES TO CHILDLESS.+

+Woman and Three Men Become Parents After
Transplantation.+

Milford, Kansas.--A surgeon in this little Kansas town has lifted from
womanhood the curse of sterility.

He is Dr. J. R. Brinkley, chief surgeon of the Brinkley-Jones Hospital
of Milford.

For several years Dr. Brinkley has made a study of the transplantation
of the interstitial glands and its results. Two years ago he performed
his first operation upon a human being. Since then he has circumvented
nature four times, making it possible for three men and one woman to
become parents. He is awaiting results hopefully in four other cases.

The most remarkable case is that of the woman. She is a young married
woman of Milford, who had been married several years and had despaired
of bearing children. About a year and a half ago she heard of Dr.
Brinkley and his success with interstitial gland operations. She went to
him and asked him if he could cure her sterility. Dr. Brinkley made no
promises--he never does. But he told her the operation was a simple one,
and that it would improve her health, even if it failed to give her a
child. She gladly submitted to the operation.

Dr. Brinkley removed an interstitial gland from a live male goat. He
made a slight incision in the woman's abdomen, inserted the gland and
stitched it in. In a week the patient was about her household duties
again. Six months ago she gave birth to a healthy baby. It was a boy.
The mother was the happiest woman in Kansas.

The surgeon had treated six other cases similarly, but all were men--men
who loved children and yearned for parenthood. Three of the men are now
fathers of healthy children.

In each case Dr. Brinkley had used male goat glands--and all the babies
were boys.

Then this occurred to him:--

"If I transplant female goat glands maybe the babies will be girls!" He
decided to try it, and two months ago his opportunity arrived. A woman
came to him just as his first woman patient had come. She was 28 years
old, had been married six years, and was childless. Dr. Brinkley
performed the operation, using the glands of a female goat. He is now
awaiting results. "I do not say this woman will have a girl baby," said
Dr. Brinkley today, "but I am experimenting. It may be merely a
coincidence that all the babies so far have been boys. So far as I know,
I am the first surgeon to experiment with gland implantation in women.
I am also the first to us