Publisher:
London, Brentano's Ltd.: 1930
DETAILED ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF NEARLY 500 CASES OF TRANSPLANTION OF 'MONKEY GLANDS' TO HUMANS. 8 1/4 inches tall paperback book, color printed cover, lightly soiled, containing 39 photographic illustrations of surgical technique and histologic sections, and table listing statistical summary of 475 cases of simian testicular grafting upon man, 125 pages. Very good. SERGE ABRAHAMOVITCH VORONOFF (1866 - 1951) was a French surgeon of Russian extraction who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes while working ...
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