New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
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Monkey Gland
Fame, Arrives
French Surgeon Says y. S.
Apes Are Safe, Because
They're Not the Proper
kiud 10 Revitalize Man
May Perform Operations
Makes Trip Principally to
Visit Wife, Who Is I'LL;
Menier, Candy King, Here

Serge voronoff, discoverer of the
monkey gland as source of renewed
vitality for man, arrived last night on
the steamship France, of the French
Line. The monkeys here need not be
rerturbed, for DR.. Voronoff does not
think they are the right kind for surgi-
cal purposes.
DIR. Voronoff. newspaper corre-
spondent and Gasron Menier, chocolate
manufacturer and member of the
French Senate, were sitting on the
promenade deck.
''f think" said the correspondent
that / had better send a radio on
ahead to let our monkeys know you
are coming"
II don't think that will be neces-
sary," said DR.. voronoff. "They are
doubtless unsuitable. I need chimpan-
zees-big ones"
"Then," said the correspondent, "T'll
go into the monkey business, raise
them and sell them to you at $4,000
a head"
To Breed Them in France
Thank you," replied the doctor,
pleasantly, "but have sent man to
Africa to get twenty apes and bring
| hope"
They asked DR.. voronoff other ques-
tions about his discovery, news of
which reached this country last Octo-
ber. The doctor is director of the
laboratory of experimental surgery at
the College of France. His work is
skin grating and his speciality is
plastic surgery. He said that greater
strides had been made in these
branches of surgery during the two
years of the war than had been made
in forty years of peace.
He said that he chose the monkey
in his experiments because it was the
most virile animal and like unto man.
He claims to have grated the intes-
tinal glands Of an ape in an old man,
causing the return of youthful vigor.
He also asserts that he can take SINH
lar glands from a healthy man just
dead and rejuvenate an old man with
them.
The operation, he says, is simple
one, requiring only local anaesthetic.
1t is not expensive in itself. The
greatest cost is in obtaining monkeys.
Wife, American Woman, Is Ill
DR.. Voronoff expects to be here
perform operations to prove his theory.
He is here principally to see his wife,
an American woman, who is ill. Then
he will return to France.
NJ. Menier brought with him his wife
and three sons. One of them, Jacques,
was badly burned about the face in an
arplane accident. The only thing that
saved his eyes was the fact that he had
on American goggles. For three weeks
he was unconscious and was for six
teen months a prisoner of the Ger
mans.
NJ. Menier and his family are going
to the Island of Anticosti, in the St.
Lawrence River. He owns the island,
which is about ITO miles long and forty
miles wide. There he is going to in
terest himself in rne production Of
pulp wood and to promote the fishing
industry. Later they will tour the
United States.
Bishop M. P. Feehan, of Fall River,
and Bishop J. Rice. of Burlington, re-
turned from an official visit to the
Pope. A. Barthelemy and his wife and
daughter came on the ship. NJ Bar
thelemy Is the newly appointed French
Consul at Chicago
The France carried 338 first cabin
passengers, ABS second and 912 steer
age.