Voronoff
Americannoun
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The story, which finds its villain in the infamous surgeon Serge Voronoff, sees history as part truth and part perpetuated artifice we have collectively believed, though often reality turns out even more unbelievable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022
The body’s protestations didn’t deter the infamous France-based surgeon Serge Voronoff from carrying out his “monkey gland experiments” in the 1920s, which consisted of implanting slices of chimpanzee or baboon testicles into their human counterparts.
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2022
In earlier operations Voronoff had failures because the transplanted portions were too thick and died before they could knit up with the human glands.
From Time Magazine Archive
No senescent organism has ever been rejuvenated by the procedures of Steinach* and Voronoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There is only one thing to do," Voronoff snapped.
From The Lost Warship by Williams, Robert Moore
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