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[Illustration: J. R. BRINKLEY, M.D., MILFORD, KANSAS, U.S.A.]
No. 5 The One-Best-Way Series of
New Thought Books
THE GOAT-GLAND
TRANSPLANTATION
As Originated and Successfully Performed
by J. R. Brinkley, M.D., of Milford,
Kansas, U.S.A., in Over 600 Operations
Upon Men and Women
By
SYDNEY B. FLOWER
New Thought Book Department
722-732 Sherman Street
Chicago, Ill.
Set Up and Electrotyped
May, 1921
Copyright, 1921
By Sidney B. Flower
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR'S PREFACE 5
Chapter. Page.
I. DR. BRINKLEY'S THEORY 11
II. THE PRACTICE, MEN 17
III. THE PRACTICE, WOMEN 23
IV. DR. BRINKLEY'S OWN STORY 30
V. A YEAR OF DEVELOPMENT 42
VI. THE STORY OF CHANCELLOR TOBIAS 48
VII. PROFESSOR STEINACH AND THE RAT 60
VIII. A WEEK AT DR. BRINKLEY'S HOSPITAL 66
IX. SUMMARY 72
X. "THE SPARK OF LIFE" 78
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
Though dealing exactly with a surgical subject, this book is a layman's
word to laymen. It is an attempt to say to the general public a few
things about this amazing work of Dr. J. R. Brinkley, of Milford,
Kansas, which he is debarred from saying for himself in this simple
form. He has under consideration a book of his own covering the subject
of Goat-Gland Transplantation, his experiments, successes, failures,
theories, and conclusions, which will probably be issued during the
winter of 1922, and in that book he expects to treat his subject
exhaustively with full medical and surgical detail, in a manner
acceptable to the medical profession. But, in the meantime, no
satisfactory effort has been made to tell the story to the general
public, except in the fragmentary form of occasional newspaper notices.
The author feels that the chief interest in this matter abides with the
patient rather than with the practitioner, or, if not the chief
interest, at least an equal interest. It seems proper, therefore, that
the subject should be briefly dealt with at this time, while it is yet
in its infancy, in such a manner that the general public may grasp the
essentials of what is being done in America in this new application of
endocrinology. Some attention is paid to the pioneer work of Dr. Frank
Lydston of Chicago in the transplanting of human glands into human
beings, but rather by way of emphasizing the fact that Dr. Brinkley,
with the choice of human, monkey, goat, or sheep glands before him,
chose the goat-glands in preference to any other for his field of
experiment and operation, and has never for a moment regretted his
choice, or seen any reason to alter it.
Without any wish to enter upon a controversy, the author is impelled to
take some notice of the statement of Dr. Serge Voronoff of Paris, who,
during his recent visit to the United States, announced that he pinned
his faith almost exclusively to the glands of the anthropoid apes as
most suitable for transplantation into human beings, while he lamented
the natural scarcity of obtainable material. Dr. Voronoff is credited
with having performed over 150 transplantations upon rams, but none
whatever of goat-glands upon human beings, and not more than two or
three of simian glands upon human beings. His statement, therefore, that
successful transplantation of the glands of the goat into a human being
is "impossible, and cannot succeed," is empirical, and entirely
unsupported by any experience of his own in the matter. Against it, and
completely confuting it, we set the clear conclusions of Dr. Brinkley,
backed by his unequalled record of over 600 successful transplants of
goat-glands into men and women, during the past three years. Since there
is no other human being who has had experience sufficient in this matter
upon which he may justly found an opinion, it seems to the author that
only one man, Dr. Brinkley himself, is qualified to speak at all, and
until members of the medical profession here and in Europe have mastered
Dr. Brinkley's technique, and learned what to do, and how and why, and
what not to do, and why not, a dogmatic negative is not the proper
comment with regard to the question of whether successful
transplantation of goat-glands can be made upon human beings. If, after
learning what Dr. Brinkley has learned by laborious experiments,
continued for years, they find that their conclusions differ from his,
they will at least have earned the right to speak. But it is
unreasonable to suppose, in that event, that their conclusions would in
any way or degree differ from Dr. Brinkley's conclusion that, in brief,
the implanting of the glands of the young goat into men and women is an
actual triumph of modern surgery and medical skill, which has resulted,
in hundreds of cases, clearly recorded, and filed for reference, in
rejuvenating both men and women; removing impotence from old men; curing
arterio-sclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, in every case treated;
curing five cases of Dementia Praecox out of a total of five cases
treated; curing six cases of Locomotor Ataxia out of six cases treated;
curing two cases of Paralysis Agitans out of two cases treated;
restoring normal conditions in one hundred cases of Psychopathia
Sexualis; bringing about the parenthood of barren women and impotent men
not yet past middle-age; restoring the function of menstruation or
regular periodicity to women who have passed through the change of life;
and, in a word, making good in the cure of so-called incurables, and
doing something that was never done before, to our knowledge, in the
history of the earth.
It is not the intention in this little book to follow Dr. Brinkley in
exact detail through his amazing list of cases of all manner of diseases
cured by this treatment. His files are open to the profession at all
times, and the records may be consulted by the earnest investigator at
the hospital at Milford, Kansas.
The intention in this little book is to cover particularly that phase of
human longing which asks that the clock be turned back, and that old age
be deferred.
It is a fact beyond all gainsaying that Dr. Brinkley's operation has in
truth cheated old age of its toll in very many cases of both sexes, and
the improvement, or rejuvenation, affects both the minds and bodies of
those treated by this method; and this rejuvenation is lasting to the
extent of the doctor's observation. It would be presuming to say that it
is a permanent improvement. Upon that point no one has any right to
offer an opinion, because there are no facts upon which to found it. But
Dr. Brinkley's earliest cases, operated upon three years ago, up to the
present time have shown no diminution whatever in the good effects
secured. Neither the women nor the men have lost any particle of their
increased vitality during this lapse of time. Who can say how long the
good effects will continue? Dr. Brinkley's opinion is that the
improvement will run for possibly fifteen years, at the end of which
time he expects to re-operate upon any cases that show a slowing-down in
the life-processes, and believes that the introduction of two new glands
after that time will result in a return of the vitality in full force as
before. That is his guess of the probable duration of the improvement,
but it is quite possible that his estimate errs on the side of
conservatism. There is one assuring and comforting fact, however,
bearing on this point, which should be carefully noted here, namely,
when a retransplantation was made by Dr. Brinkley upon a goat which had
first been cured of old age by transplantation of new glands, which was
allowed to retain this new adolescence for a year, and was then deprived
of the glands, causing a speedy return to the miserable condition of old
age and its ills, and which was then re-operated upon and given two new
glands, the instant improvement was every whit as noticeable and as
perfect in this second implantation as in the first. Now it is a
reasonable inference from this clear-cut result that Dr. Brinkley is
right in his opinion that a second transplantation of the goat-glands
into a human being after a lapse of years, when the first implant may be
expected to have worn itself thin, will result in the same improvement
in the physical and mental condition of either man or woman as took
place upon the first implant. This is, in fact, the basis of his theory
that the normal age of man and woman today can be surely extended from
the three score and ten limit to possibly twice that number of years.
You are invited to consider what this discovery of Dr. Brinkley's
operation, for it is no less than a discovery, would have meant to the
world in the prolongation of the lives of those benefactors in all
fields of human endeavor, Literature, Science, Art, etc., if it had been
known and understood when Shakespeare wrote, when Darwin worked, when
Rubens painted, and when Patti sang. It will please your fancy to
picture what might have been, but we have before us the consideration of
what is, and it is more than comforting to know that we shall deal here
with the hard cold facts of what is being done today, and will be done
tomorrow. This is no poet's dream, but the stern reality of a young
surgeon's work in hospital, extending over three memorable years of
achievement in a virgin field. Dr. Brinkley has worked out his problem
alone, save for the devoted aid of his wife, who is also a licensed
physician. He is today a poor man, and expects to remain so, because he
has refused every alluring offer made him looking to the establishment
of this Goat-Gland operation as a commercial proposition on a big scale.
He is governed by his ethical vows, and retains his independence, but
the world would call him a fool for not turning his discovery to his
greatest pecuniary profit. Since he prefers to remain true to his ideals
in this matter it is for us at least to be thankful, and accord him the
recognition to which the scientist is entitled who puts his work above
his profits.
Chicago, April, 1921.
CHAPTER I
DR. BRINKLEY'S THEORY
We are not privileged to be discursive in a little book which seeks to
hit the nail on the head in every paragraph, drive it home in every
page, and clinch it in every chapter, and there would be no excuse,
therefore, for sketching, even in brief outline, the history of the
various attempts that have been made, from Brown-Sequard, with his
Elixir, to Metchnikoff, with his benevolent bacteria of the intestinal
tract, to extract from Life its secret of human longevity. It has been a
long quest, and, in the main, fruitless, though it might be said in
fairness that Brown-Sequard's method of using the expressed testicular
juice as a medicine, by mouth or injection, for the renewal of youth,
was probably the true parent of the present familiar method of using the
extracts of various glands, or the pulverized substance of the glands
themselves, notably the thyroid and the adrenal, as medicines to be
taken internally for the relief of various diseased conditions. The
constant objection to such form of medication is, of course, that when
the medicine is stopped the good results stop, so that a temporary
relief is the utmost that can be hoped for from the method. Genius is
synthetic, elliptic, sudden, but always clear and sure. Dr. Brinkley
began with a theory, and by no means a new theory. From the theory he
deduced rapidly, and acted. The results of the acts proved the truth of
the theory. That theory has been variously stated, its most familiar
form being, "In all living forms the basis of all energy is sex-energy."
Looking about for facts to confirm or disprove this assertion all
investigators have been faced with similar phenomena, such as:
When the male fowl is sterilized in order that he may grow big and fat
for the market later he loses his cock's plumage and gains in weight. In
the psychic domain the changes are still more marked. The capon is a
coward, shunning the contest for supremacy. He does not forage for the
hens, inviting them to feed upon what he has found, but looks after
himself first and last. He is lazy, sluggish, and selfish.
The stallion is a proud and beautiful animal, and Job's description of
the war-horse "He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength, He
goeth on to meet the armed men!" with its context, is still the best
word-painting we have of the majesty of the horse in full possession of
his sexual powers. The gelding is tractable and useful, and the absence
of the fiery impatience of the stallion fits the gelding for man's use.
When men are castrated, as in the East, in youth, where they are prized
as custodians of the harem, they are fat, usually large of frame, but
short-lived. The growth of hair on the head is often scant; on the face
and body it is altogether missing. The voice is high, partaking of a
treble quality. When through surgical operation or accident it happens
that a man is deprived of the testicular glands in youth, early manhood,
or even middle-age, the same changes follow as in the case of the
eunuch, the hair on face and body disappears, the voice changes from
deep to high tone, and mentally the man develops inertia and cowardice.
Physically, he puts on fat almost immediately.
When women have, for any reason, had their ovaries removed by surgical
operation, marked changes follow, which vary much in detail, but carry
certain general similarities. The face and body age rapidly in
appearance, and there is a slowing up of functions of the organs, with a
tendency to masculinity in tastes, behavior, feelings.
Noting these and many other phenomena, as many had done before him, Dr.
Brinkley concluded that the testes of the male and the ovaries of the
female performed corresponding offices for each sex, generating the
vital fluids which, when not fulfilling their primary object of
reproducing the species, were turned back into the blood and absorbed by
the tissues for the benefit of the individual's physical and mental
processes. Normal activity of the secretions of the sex-glands,
therefore, meant, in Dr. Brinkley's opinion, right nourishment for all
the cells of the body, and right functioning of all the organs of the
body. The strength and speed of the stallion in health were as much due
to the right action of the sex-glands as his full-arched neck, his
blazing eye, or his thick mane and tail. And since the capon and the
eunuch acquired a cowardice that avoided fatigue, effort, or conflict,
it was clear that the mental qualities were as directly influenced by
the testicular secretion as the physical. It followed that the
well-nourished brain, capable of sustained concentration and clear
thinking, must necessarily be the brain that was fed by the normal
activity of the sex-glands, and it also followed that since youth in man
and woman is the time of matured beauty of face and form in man and
woman, when sexual secretions are of normal activity, therefore, the
sexual secretions were mainly responsible for the development of matured
beauty of face and form. From this it was clear and evident that the
haggard face, the lined face, the over-thin or the over-fat body,
phemonena familiar to all of us in men and women who have passed their
youth, were due in the main to lack of nourishment of the body-cells by
the seminal fluid, with lack of proper functioning of the organs, and
resultant lack of proper elimination of waste matter from the system,
producing that condition of slowing-down of the machine which is a part
of the aging process of the body and mind of man and woman, as seen in
all men and all women today.
It is important always that you realize that though we may seem to
stress the physical improvement in human beings brought about by this
gland-transplantation, the more important change of the two is the
mental, and Dr. Brinkley's theory that ALL ENERGY IS SEX-ENERGY means
exactly that the powerful brain equally with the beautiful face owes its
strength and vigor exactly to the right functioning of the sex-glands.
We must not be accused here of running to extravagance. It is not stated
that all human brains are of equal power or can be developed to equal
power. It is stated that all human brains of unusual power are brains
that are well-nourished by the testicular secretions, and it is implied,
with full understanding of what this statement leads to, that if, for
any reason, there is an interference with this sex-gland activity, the
unusual brain will cease in a short time to be unusual in its power,
grasp, and faculty of clear, continuous thought. Similarly it is stated
that if this unusual brain, after losing its power of sustained
thinking, is again fed by the renewed activities of the sex-glands, it
will re-establish its power, and the mind will display its former
brilliance.
You see how amazing and far-reaching is the application of this
apparently simple theory that sex-energy is the basis of all human
energy.
It is, after all, only another way of saying that all things proceed
from a common source, that Life is One, that Mind and Body derive from
the same source, that energy is so much an integral of matter, that in
the final analysis matter is only static energy; since the atom is made
of molecules, and molecules of electrons, and electrons of electricity,
or energy.
In saying, therefore, that sex-energy is at the basis of all human
energy we may quite possibly be trending towards a solution of the
world-old question of what Life itself is. Some day, without a doubt, we
shall surprise this secret at its source. At present we are fortunate to
have discovered, through Dr. Brinkley's careful proving of his theory,
that human energy, no matter whether its manifestation be physical or
mental, has a common base of supply, the sex-glands, and that their
activity determines a brilliant mentality, or a dull brain; a state of
health, or a state of disease; beauty of form and feature and skin, or
wrinkles, sallowness and ugliness. These appearances and qualities are
phenomena which have the same source, or base. Many have felt this to be
true. Dr. Brinkley alone has had the wit and skill to find the means to
solve the problem as it should be solved to be of any value to humanity,
namely, to discover how the inactivity can be changed to activity, how
the blood of man and woman can be charged anew with the life-giving
hormones, perhaps, or whatever may be the name of that substance
secreted by the sex-glands and used by the blood to nourish all the
cells of the body, which MUST be present in the system if body and mind
are to continue to function at their best.
[Illustration: DR. AND MRS. BRINKLEY]