"He also began transplanting the testicles of executed criminals into
rich old guys (as a treatment for senility and schizophrenia), but had
to stop when the demand for the procedure far exceeding the supply of
criminal testicles. At this point, Voronoff began using monkey
testicles instead, and his first "monkey gland" to human transplant
took place in June of 1920."
I love how 19th and early 20th Century medicine was filled with nutty science like this. I'll take bets, that in 100 years, people will laugh at the shit we're trying these days.
LINK - Retrospectacle
LINK - Wikipedia article (The Monkeygland Man)
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