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From the Library of Congress - see here, and search here for Voronoff. Carcharoth 17:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Google translation of w:it:Serge Voronoff ( version):
"Serge Voronoff (10 July 1866-3 september 1951) was a surgeon Russian-French who, resuming the experiments of sexual physiology of the Austrian Eugen Steinach, divenne famous in the years Twenty for its method of male rejuvenation consisting in the graft of genital glands them of monkey.
Such method gave some positive effect, but of short duration. However Voronoff continued to being considered, from the large public, like one species of modern wizard depositary of the secret in order to delay the old age and to obtain the longevity.
In 1897 it had assumed the French citizenship.
During the first world war it directed the surgical unit of a Russian hospital in France.
Moors to the age of 85 years.
Curious, Voronoff is cited in the text of the song the serum of Strokomogoloff, written from Leo Chiosso on music of Fred Buscaglione, capacity to the happened one in Italy from the same Buscaglione to the end of years 1950. Playing on the assonance with Strokomogoloff, Chiosso used like testimonial of the serum various sufficiently famous Russian personages the public Italian of the age: beyond to Voronoff, Fëdor Mikhailovič Dostoevskij (author of the novel the siblings Karamàzov) Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov, Michele Strogoff. The brano playfully lists to the multiple property of one portentosa pozione in a position to resolving not only the aesthetic problems of health and defects, but also the troubles of love and the lack of inspiration of the artists. In the song of Chiosso, Voronoff, also insinuating that the serum of the contender is not a elisir of long life, of it advises the assumption in order to favor the digestive process."
Might be of use. Carcharoth 18:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
I have become obsessed with Voronoff, and plan on doing many edits to improve the article. For starters, I think the article needs more information on how the surgeries are completely useless. The way it's written now, it almost seems to suggest that it *might* work.
The so-called "absorption" of the tissue is bogus. At best, you get scarring, which might feel like the grafts. (Not that I have personally experienced the phenomena.)
Also, archive.org actually has two Voronoff books in PDF form available. I have to remember to add these to the reference material.
On top of all of this, I'll be attending a lecture at Carleton University on the topic of "rejuvenation" in the early 20th century. You can be sure more Voronoff material will become available.
I ramble. -- Nik 20:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Earlier I had input some new research information that recent experimental work with Sertoli cells in the human testes has established that these cells are immunoprotective, so that foreign tissue implanted into Sertoli cells of the testes would not cause rejection, as the article incorrectly asserts. So Voronoff's implants in the testes would have been made into an 'immunologically privileged site,' allowing them to function. This method is today being used in experimental work by the Sernova company, which implants islet cells from the pancreas into a pouch containing immunoprotective Sertoli cells to avoid the use of toxic anti-rejection drugs, necessary to permit islets not from the patient to survive and treat diabetes. Someone not up to date with the latest research in transplant immunology evidently removed this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.151.246.161 ( talk) 17:04, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Is there a source for the story about Voronoff implanting a woman's ovary into a monkey, and then trying to get the monkey pregnant? I found it strange that David Hamilton's book, "The Monkey Gland Affair" makes no mention of it. -- Nik 14:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I loved the new pictures so much, I just ordered a copy of Serge's book, "Life". Thanks, guys.
By the way, I posted some before and after pictures of adults on my blog, which I scanned out of Voronoff's book "Rejuvenation by Grafting". Feel free to snatch the photos from there, if at all intrigued. I believe they are public domain now. -- Nik 15:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I presume the main page exposure this received resulted in someone adding the Heart of a Dog reference. Fasciniating! This is what makes collaborative editing so great. Carcharoth 09:56, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
There's supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes story featuring some bizarre grafting technique. Does anyone remember which story it is? For the life of me, I can't. I've been meaning to track it down, read it, and add info about it to this article. -- Nik 19:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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Could someone with a medical background review the above section? To my admittedly non-medical eyes it seems to be veering into WP:FRINGE territory in trying to rehabilitate the subject. Autarch ( talk) 03:33, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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From the Library of Congress - see here, and search here for Voronoff. Carcharoth 17:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Google translation of w:it:Serge Voronoff ( version):
"Serge Voronoff (10 July 1866-3 september 1951) was a surgeon Russian-French who, resuming the experiments of sexual physiology of the Austrian Eugen Steinach, divenne famous in the years Twenty for its method of male rejuvenation consisting in the graft of genital glands them of monkey.
Such method gave some positive effect, but of short duration. However Voronoff continued to being considered, from the large public, like one species of modern wizard depositary of the secret in order to delay the old age and to obtain the longevity.
In 1897 it had assumed the French citizenship.
During the first world war it directed the surgical unit of a Russian hospital in France.
Moors to the age of 85 years.
Curious, Voronoff is cited in the text of the song the serum of Strokomogoloff, written from Leo Chiosso on music of Fred Buscaglione, capacity to the happened one in Italy from the same Buscaglione to the end of years 1950. Playing on the assonance with Strokomogoloff, Chiosso used like testimonial of the serum various sufficiently famous Russian personages the public Italian of the age: beyond to Voronoff, Fëdor Mikhailovič Dostoevskij (author of the novel the siblings Karamàzov) Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov, Michele Strogoff. The brano playfully lists to the multiple property of one portentosa pozione in a position to resolving not only the aesthetic problems of health and defects, but also the troubles of love and the lack of inspiration of the artists. In the song of Chiosso, Voronoff, also insinuating that the serum of the contender is not a elisir of long life, of it advises the assumption in order to favor the digestive process."
Might be of use. Carcharoth 18:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
I have become obsessed with Voronoff, and plan on doing many edits to improve the article. For starters, I think the article needs more information on how the surgeries are completely useless. The way it's written now, it almost seems to suggest that it *might* work.
The so-called "absorption" of the tissue is bogus. At best, you get scarring, which might feel like the grafts. (Not that I have personally experienced the phenomena.)
Also, archive.org actually has two Voronoff books in PDF form available. I have to remember to add these to the reference material.
On top of all of this, I'll be attending a lecture at Carleton University on the topic of "rejuvenation" in the early 20th century. You can be sure more Voronoff material will become available.
I ramble. -- Nik 20:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Earlier I had input some new research information that recent experimental work with Sertoli cells in the human testes has established that these cells are immunoprotective, so that foreign tissue implanted into Sertoli cells of the testes would not cause rejection, as the article incorrectly asserts. So Voronoff's implants in the testes would have been made into an 'immunologically privileged site,' allowing them to function. This method is today being used in experimental work by the Sernova company, which implants islet cells from the pancreas into a pouch containing immunoprotective Sertoli cells to avoid the use of toxic anti-rejection drugs, necessary to permit islets not from the patient to survive and treat diabetes. Someone not up to date with the latest research in transplant immunology evidently removed this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.151.246.161 ( talk) 17:04, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Is there a source for the story about Voronoff implanting a woman's ovary into a monkey, and then trying to get the monkey pregnant? I found it strange that David Hamilton's book, "The Monkey Gland Affair" makes no mention of it. -- Nik 14:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I loved the new pictures so much, I just ordered a copy of Serge's book, "Life". Thanks, guys.
By the way, I posted some before and after pictures of adults on my blog, which I scanned out of Voronoff's book "Rejuvenation by Grafting". Feel free to snatch the photos from there, if at all intrigued. I believe they are public domain now. -- Nik 15:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I presume the main page exposure this received resulted in someone adding the Heart of a Dog reference. Fasciniating! This is what makes collaborative editing so great. Carcharoth 09:56, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
There's supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes story featuring some bizarre grafting technique. Does anyone remember which story it is? For the life of me, I can't. I've been meaning to track it down, read it, and add info about it to this article. -- Nik 19:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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Could someone with a medical background review the above section? To my admittedly non-medical eyes it seems to be veering into WP:FRINGE territory in trying to rehabilitate the subject. Autarch ( talk) 03:33, 14 June 2020 (UTC)