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
Luck was with almond-eyed Gertrude Voronoff, cousin-of Magda Lupescu Hohenzollern and wife of Dr. Serge Voronoff, 82-year-old exponent of youth-through-monkey-glands.
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Voronoff, who promptly cabled from Monaco claiming it.
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It was Voronoff who, as far as he knew them, had revealed the plans of the attack to the Ogrum.
From The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams
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