The Brinkley operation / by J.R. Brinkley.

  • John R. Brinkley
Date:
[1922]
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Credit: The Brinkley operation / by J.R. Brinkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Today I am able to announce to the world, without mincing' words, that the right method has been found, that I am daily transplanting animal glands into human bodies, and that these transplanted glands do actually continue to func¬ tion as live tissue in the human body, revital¬ izing the injured, atrophied, or sluggish human gland, stimulating the human gland to a new activity, enabling the human gland to perform its proper work of pouring its special hormone into the human circulation for the benefit of the system generally. If I could not prove this statement true in hundreds of cases today, or if I could not prove its truth to any skeptical member of our profes¬ sion, I should be wary of putting myself on record in this positive manner. To put it quite simply, I have this work developed now to such a point that I can fairly claim to control my operations to get the efifects aimed at. The re¬ sults are no longer happy accidents checked by numerous failures, but proceed along the level lines of repetitive success. This is also the proper time to say frankly that those who say that animal glands, e. g., of the goat, cannot be successfully transplanted into human beings do not know what they are talk¬ ing about, and this, regardless of how well known they may be, of what personal eminence, or of what powerful institution they may he a part. And I say to them here that before they make any more such statements they should be able to say that they came here, looked into what I was doing here every day, and that I then
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