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
To understand the methods of Voronoff and Eugen Steinach, the Viennese surgeon, who works on a quite different principle, some knowledge of the glandular system of the body is essential.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Serge Voronoff, gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There is only one thing to do," Voronoff snapped.
From The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams
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