The Washington times., 1922-12-29
GLAND CURE IS
FRAUD, SAYS.
SURGEON
Dr.. Matas Denies Age Can Be
Halted or vigor
Restored.

Ho0IOI00.
NEW ORLEANS. La, Dec. 2s.-l
DR.. Rudolph Matas, head OF the
medical department Of Tulane Uni.
versity. former president Of the
American Medical Association. and
one of the most eminent surgeons
of the United States. Immediately
following his return from the re-
cent congress OF French surgery in
Paris. declared that the socalled
transplanting Of glands, animal or
human, as means TO restore lost
youth. was one OF the most gigantic
frauds ever perpetrated upon the
race, and that II was the duty OF
the medical profession and news
papers to warn against what he
described as the charlatans who are
exploiting the gland theory.
Gigantic Fraud, He Says.
In Paris. DR.. Matas met the most
renowned surgeons of Europe, and
he declared that these surgeons
are unwilling to take any stock in
the theory Of gland efficiency in
the restoration of youthful powers.
DR.. Matas said:
leland implantins. an a means
Of restoring youthful powers to the
old. men or women. Is gigantic
fraud.
The idea that aged persons. who
have lost physical powers through
natural processes. can be made
young again by the grating OF
goat or q. monkey gland. or a hu.
man land, IL too ridiculous to he
discussed seriously.
1.-The doctors who claim to be able
to restore physical vigor by opera.
tions involving the application of
animal gla IDS are interruptions
quacks. and the newspapers should
man gland, is too ridiculous to be
"A man Is as old as his arteries.
When these begin TO harden and to
grow tough, when the head becomes
bald or the hair gray. when the
bones grow brittle, making him
young again is stretching the i'm
possible into a thorough falsehood."
Ridiculed by Surgeons.
DR.. Matas. who was an active par.
ticipant at the Paris conference Of
surgeons. said that while the con.
ference made no attempt to discuss
the gland theory. the matter was
raised when Voronoff. the Russian
surgeon. attemptede to introduce the
subject. Noronoff has been an
ardent defender Of the gland the.
ory, but. according to DR.. Matas,
the Paris conference refused to ex-
press any confidence In his meth
DDS. nor was he allowed to speak.
I'm an informal way" DR.. Matas
said. leading surgeons OF Europe
discussed the gland theory. or.
rather, the extensive propaganda
which has been waged in support
Of II. hut every surgeon ridieuled
the argument that the implantine
OF glands can restore lost vitality"
The Paris congress OF surgeons
refused to hear Voronoff." DR..
Matas said. because the awaken.
cd minds OF the world know that
the idea OF restoring youth to the
esed 10 . pure fsllacy. The e.
rect or new glands. under the idea
or surgery. is much like . drink Of
time. then dies, and the patient
thereafter 10 worse than before.
"Gland grating might stimulate
temporarily in the case Of a young
man. but there 10 no hope for the
old man, and with the young man,
bear In mind, the stimulation is
only temporarily. and effects only
the special organism to which IL
is applied. II will not make the
hair grow on a bald head, as
some OF the quacks claim; il will
not revivify arteries that have
become hard; II will not under
any circumstances, even in the
case Of young man. establish |
provocative powers.
Would Expose Fakes.
There can be no generstive
powers from a goat or q monkey
gland, or any sort Of gland trans.
planted by surgical operation, be. |
cause there can be no fertilization.
The medical sharks have declared
otherwise, but their declarations are !
false.
1T is a great pity that there are
persons In the world willing and
eager to squander their money and |
their time and imperil their self. |
respect on the experiments Of these
unscrupulous doctors, and Il is the |
duty Of the profession to urge upon
newspapers especially the necessity |
OF exposing this newest and great. |
est OF American fakes.
Some men are old at TWENTY-FIVE.
others at sixty.five. but In any case
II depends upon the arteries, and
OF the arteries there is one thing
OF which science is absolutely sure:
When an artery loses its flexibility
there Is nothing that will restore
". To say that glands-humsn
glands. goat glands. monkey glands,
or glands OF any sort-wili do II 10
propostarouA"