re without seems to create a
high temperature for the patient, and the result is a wasted pair of
good goat glands, with loss of time and money to all concerned. In
England in the summer it should be necessary to wait a few days only for
right climatic conditions to present themselves, and be sure that they
will do so. There are the further matters of a supply of goats of the
right Toggenburg breed, a place to keep them, in close proximity to the
operating hospital, and the hospital itself, to be dealt with suitably
in the shortest possible space of time after arrival. The supply of
goats can probably be best procured direct from Switzerland through some
London importer, and the other matters will no doubt fall easily into
place. The goats must not come from a high altitude, or their glands
will not contain a right amount of iodine. This is curiously important.
Dr. Brinkley cannot use goats from Colorado for that reason. If the
doctor's reception in England is cordial he will probably make his visit
there an annual summer affair of three months' duration for some years
to come, which would give him an opportunity of keeping in continued
touch with his English and European patients. The English are a
practical people, and less sensitive than we to, or more careless of,
ridicule, and they are likely to grasp the importance of Dr. Brinkley's
work on the instant of his arrival, compelling a long visit.

CHAPTER VII

PROFESSOR STEINACH AND THE RAT

Writing with vivacity and humor, Mr. Clarence Day, Jr., speculates with
so much whimsicality upon the possible effects of surgical rejuvenation
of men that one might overlook the keenness of his observation in a
hurried perusal of his article. For the sake of preserving it for more
leisurely study, and because the points raised are really worthy of
attention, the article is reproduced here in full, with acknowledgments
to +The Literary Review+, in which it first appeared, of date November
20, 1920. Says Mr. Day:

Biologists really seem to be discovering ways of making men young again.
So far, it is like making men drunk; the state that is produced does not
last. But it looks as though they might succeed in adding a chapter to
life. I wish it could be added to the other end: to youth instead of to
the last flickers. But if we can renew and re-live middle-age, that will
be better still.

A man named Steinach, in Vienna, has been experimenting for ten years
with rats. F