The quest for eternal youth is the stuff of legend and poetry. Winston Churchill was given rejuvenation treatment in Switzerland.
Secrecy always cloaks the therapy.
Now it is again the source of controversy. The German authorities have decided to ban so-called fresh cell therapy as being potentially dangerous. The clinic directors and doctors of the Black Forest are protesting and have taken the Government to the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. The treatment draws on ancient medical tradition. Pliny the Elder records that impotent Romans used to eat the bladders of young wild boar.