New-York tribune., 1920-07-12
Restores Youth
By X-Ray, Claim
OF Austrian
Professor E. steinaeh, of
Vienna, Says 1t Is Not
Necessary to Transplant
Glands From Animals
Experimenting a Decade
Asserts He Discovered the
Secret Long Before DIR.
Voronoff, Paris Surgeon
By William C.'Dreher
Special Gable to The Tribune


Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc
BERLIN, July 1.-Professor Eugen
Steinach. Vienna biologist, has come
forward with claim that he is the
real discoverer of the. scientific process
of prolonging and renewing youth. In
q book on the subject which the pro-
fessor has just published he reveals
that his experiments on animals date
back to 1913, and that for eight years
past he has been demonstrating the
value of his secret in experiments on
men and women.
Professor Steinach's scheme is not
confined to the mere transplantation
OF glands from the monkey or goat to
the human system to replace exhausted
organs, but it has been carried out as
we'll by the use of the X-ray.
Rejuvenation of the system is what
is needed, he explains in his book, and
this end can be attained as satisfac-
torily with the X-ray as by the slight
operation required to substitute a new
gland.
Passed Experimental Stage
The professors plans apparently
have passed far beyond the expert
mental stage. There is already talk
of putting the idea into actual practice
on large scale, as the results OBJ
tanned are said to have been universally
satisfactory. The newspapers, which
are printing columns in praise of this
epoch-making discovery, suggest that
1T has come to Austria at an hour of
crisis, when the war has dragged down
the health of the people and when most,
of all times, they are in need of such
a rejuvenator as this.
sour most profound poverty" says
one newspaper, may be relieved and
Austria restored by this discovery"
The book, just published, is the first
subject. The results of the professors
experiments were c:.~.ributed to the
Vienna Academy of Sciences in 1913,
as they were being worked out on
animals. Soon afterward Professor
Stelnach began experimenting on per-
sons, finding, over long period of
years, that he got best results in the
case of women.
Writing of the effect of the expert
ments on animals, DR.. Holzknecht, a
Vienna professor, says:
This treatment caused the blooming
into youth of animals afflicted with the
y T..
such as lack of appetite and loss of
hair. The animals treated grew frisky,
ate greedily and then began to gamboi
with their young and to fight their
rivals. The discovery promises to re-
gain the long-lost SUBMITS of life and
to add one-fourth, or longer, to the
normal duration of life"
Antedate French Experiments
The experiments on persons, which
now are in their ninth year, were be-
gun only after long tests on animals
proved satisfactory. The new. field of
experiment produced similar results.
A more youthful appearance is noted
in old men; their physical and mental
capacities revive; energy and efficiency
in business are regained and vital force
and joy in living are restored to their
condition before the decline set in.
The experiments of the Austrian
claimant for the discovery of the
process antedate those made by DR..
Serge Voronoff, Paris surgeon and
member Of the French Academy, whose
success was proclaimed to the world a
year ago. He had experimental over a
period Of a year or two on many ami
mails and few old men, he said,
bringing back to them the spirit and
strength Of former days. A few weeks
later DR., Leo L. Stanley, of San
Quentin Prison, Calf, put forth
claim, insisting that his experiments
had zone back several wears