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
One summer day in 1925 dexterous Dr. Serge Voronoff had on his operating table a frail, weazened wisp of a woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Singer Lily Pons went to see the monkeys kept by Menton's famed Rejuvenating Dr. Serge Voronoff, got too close to a cage, was soundly bussed by an ape named Rastus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Michaelson and Voronoff, awakened by the hysterical cries of the youth, were sitting up.
From The Lost Warship by Williams, Robert Moore
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