Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-06-11
Grandpop May be Like Damsel

GfanGp0p May De Like DanlSsl
Can you imagine your grandfather
transformed into a blooming damsel
of 1e by the marvel of modern science
Leading Washington physicians ag-
rec with DR.. Victor Lespinasse, of Chi
cago, that something of this sort is
scientifically possible. DR.. Lespinasse
recently changed hen into spry
young rooster by transferring inter
stilial glands from one fowl to anoth
er and believes he can perform sex
Iinterchanging operations on human
beings in the same way. The doctor
claims that youth can also be restor
ed in the some way.
at would seem logical for such an
operation to result in transference of
sex characteristics, said DR.. ]. Thorn
as Kelly leading Capital surgeon.
But l do not see that any purpose
could be saved except that of exper-
| imentation."
The operation would only be sue
cessful in the case of very young PEG
pie, according to DR.. w. E. Trimble,
Chief surgeon of the Public Health
Service Hospital.
Operations exchanging glands and
thus producing change of the secon-
Diary sexual characteristics have been
successful among the lower animals,
Including guina pigs" said DR.. Trim
BILE. "But the animals used have invar
IDLY been young ones. This would lead
to the inferance that if the same OPP
Grafton were tried on human beings
1t would prove successful in the cos
es of individuals, who have not attain
ed adolescence.
DR.. H. F. Stryne, chief surgeon at
the Navel Hospital, said, Il think the
proposition quite practical. num-
Der of operations approximating the
conditions described by DR.. Lespin-
asse have been performed. While the
percentage of successful operations
was low, it was enough to demon
strate the possibilities offered by the
|transferance of glands.
DR.. G. T. Vaugn, chief surgeon at
Georgetown Hospital, said: while it
is not impossible that such an operat
lion might be performed successfully
do not think would be Of any prac
tical value. 1t would simply be a sur
lgical feat for the performance Of
(which there would be no demand"
There is absolutely no scientific
rea son why Dr.. >Lespinasse's theory
should not. work out, according to
Dr.. N. N. Similer, chief surgeon at
Emergency Hospital.
"The proposition is logical and sci
entific," he said "and l know of no
reason why Dr.. Lespinasse should
not perform the operation in question
| Will SuCCSS.- EACllduSS.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION :.
VIRGINIA:
In vacation, in the Clerks Office of
Highland county, the 9th day of
May, 1920.
Minnie Terry, Alice Wade, Minerva
Page, Sidney G. Wade, Gertrude Gum,
Cuba Matheny, Annie S. Bussard,
Alice E. Dever, and Lucy K. Gum.
VS. IS In Chancory
James Wade, Admr. of Charles E.
Wade, decd, John Wade, Boone Wade
Kate Gum, Mrs. Fry Bird, S. S Wade,
Smith Bird, o. A. Bird, C. Stanley
Dever, w. Roy Dever, s. Guilford
Dover, and Thelma C. Dcvcr, the last
four being infants.
The object Of this suit is to have
settlement of the estate of Charles e.
Wade, to partition the land, of said
estate, or in lieu of partition, to make
sale thereof, and after the payment Of
the Indebtedness Of said estate, to dis
tribute the proceeds, among the par
ties, according to their interests.
And it appearing from affidavit fl
co that the defendants, Mrs. Fry
Bird, and o. A. Bird, are non-resi-
dents of this state, it is therefore or
dered that they appear here, within
Is days after due publication hereof,
and do what is necessary to protect
their interests. Teste:
w. H. MATTHEW, Clerk
Edwin B. Jones, p. q. At
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