at glands. Dr. Serge Voronoff has performed the operation
on only two human beings. He failed to give Dr. Lydston credit, although
it is obvious he followed Dr. Lydston's book."
* * * *
This completes Mr. Lehrbas' interview. In the same paper, +The Chicago
Evening American+, a month later, date of September 15, appeared the
following account of another visit to Chancellor Tobias, written by
Edward M. Thierry:
J. J. Tobias, chancellor of the Chicago Law School, told me it was none
of my business how old he is. He's got a goat-gland sewed into his
innards and I was trying to get some personal Ponce de Leon statistics.
"I'm over 50," Tobias conceded. "How much I won't say. But I will say my
clock has been turned back from ten to twenty years! Just look at me!"
He jumped out of his chair--er--friskily. That's the only expressive
word. Tobias is little, thin and wiry. His face wrinkles up and his
teeth flash when he smiles. He has grey hair and talks with quick
jerks--as if his energy is running a race with his tongue.
"I'm rejuvenated," Tobias said. "Time will tell whether my goat-gland
will make me live longer. I had that operation on last March 26, and I'm
still living. I'm no decrepit old man, either."
Tobias was operated on by Dr. J. R. Brinkley, who has caused a furor in
medical circles through his many successful goat-gland operations.
Critics of Dr. Brinkley make Tobias tired. Get his goat, so to speak. He
says he knows what he's talking about, for he was formerly lecturer in a
Chicago medical college.
"Seventy-five years ago my father had a little German machine," Tobias
said, "called the 'life waker.' It was a disk as big as a dollar with a
lot of needles in it. You jabbed it into the small of the back and waked
life that way. We can laugh at that archaic system, for it was crude.
Now we're more scientific. Witness the transplantation of goat-glands."
Tobias said he went to see Dr. Brinkley at Milford, Kansas, to
investigate his goat-gland discovery because of long suffering from
congestion of the brain arteries. Doctors had told him he was in danger
of death because of severe attacks of vertigo and a high blood pressure.
"The operation," Tobias said, "occupied about 20 minutes. Within three
hours after the operation the goat-gland began to function, the
congestion was relieved, and within three days the cause was eliminated.
"I am a new man physically, with new mental vigor, and a
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