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December 3 1967, At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christian Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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Guest post from John Martin Rare Book Room
At Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
VORONOFF, SERGE (1866-1951). Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe. [Research on aging and rejuvenation by transplantation] Printed in Paris by Octave and Gaston Doin in 1926. 23 cm tall.
The search for the secret to an eternal youth and long life has captured the imaginations of many cultures. In the West, the ancient Greek writer, Herodotus, introduced the idea of a Fountain of Youth that inspired many legends, including those attached to the Spanish conquistador, Juan Ponce de León. Potion makers, alchemists, and apothecaries sold elixirs promising to reverse the effects of aging. A legacy that lives on in the clickbait social media ads of today.
One quirky side road in the development of Endocrinology was the rejuvenation movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was kicked off by the self-experimentation of the great 19th century French-Mauritian Neurologist, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, who, at the age of 72, injected himself with extracts of guinea pig and dog testes.
He reported a host of restored abilities, including strength and cognition. It was later discredited as a treatment (eventually attributed to the placebo effect — the testes do not retain the hormones they make), but that did not stop thousands of others from trying the same. And more importantly, it got folks interested in studying hormone-producing tissues more closely.
In the early 20th century, the Russian-French surgeon, Serge Voronoff, followed in Brown-Séquard’s footsteps. Amongst other things, he performed primate to human testicle and ovary transplants. An excellent surgeon, but not always the most diligent researcher, Voronoff would transplant animal gonads into anyone who could afford it. Not surprisingly, the majority of his clients were wealthy men looking to rejuvenate their flagging “sexual vigor,” although Voronoff insisted any sexual improvement was a side effect of overall restored health.
This month, we highlight Voronoff’s seminal work, Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe. [Research on aging and rejuvenation by transplantation]. Whether you are interested in the history of Endocrinology, Urology, transplantation, animal and human research protections, quackery, or early 20th-century printing, this book has it all.
Voronoffwas born in Russia and studied medicine in France. He studied with the transplant pioneer, Alexis Carell, eventually becoming a French citizen and setting up his own research and surgical practice. While practicing in Cairo for a time, he reflected on the accelerated aging experienced by eunuchs.
Believing aging and a whole host of associated health conditions could be reversed with testicular transplantation, he set about studying the effects in farm animals. Not unexpectedly, few young men were willing to donate one of their testicles for human transplantation. He began by using the testicles of executed prisoners (he was neither the first nor the last to misuse prisoners in this way), but the demand for his services was too high. He eventually settled on monkeys and apes as the best animal substitute, setting up a “monkey farm” to ensure a steady supply.
To demonstrate the validity of his procedure, Voronoff often published patient testimonials with “before and after” photographs of his patients (see image above), a technique used throughout the 20th century and now by those peddling “too good to be true” cures. His technique inspired many other surgeons and veterinarians around the world. Thousands of animal to human and animal to animal sexual organ transplants were performed.
He was convinced he would eventually be able to create long-lived superhumans and animals. Voronoff himself performed at least one human ovary transplantation into a monkey, including an attempt to impregnate the monkey with human sperm.
An increasing lack of evidence and Voronoff’s critics, both in science and the media, finally overwhelmed the work, The discovery of hormones associated with sexual organs in the 1930’s rendered transplantation completely unnecessary.
–Damien Ihrig, Curator of JMRBR
*Image of Voronoff (top) is from the Library of Congress
“Don’t Lose Heart” - Animated Short Film
A young girl waits for her heart transplant; however, her transplant cooler gets lost in transit and must make it back to her before time runs out.
My thesis film is out!
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Atticus being in Transplant though and the way I didn’t even fail to recognise that face and that voice oof old MBAV days didn’t fail me on this one
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Hospital superbug treatment could be revolutionised with faecal transplants
C.difficile is a bacteria that can infest the gut, causing anything from mild diarrhoea to life threatening illness. In the last year, the lives of 20 patients have been transformed by the use of Faecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) in the UK.
The treatment uses faecal material collected from a healthy donor which is then screened for infections in a lab. Healthy material is mixed with a solution, filtered and administered through a fine tube into the stomach or small intestine. It can also be directly applied to the colon or large bowel via an endoscope. The treatment has had a 90 percent success rate, restoring balance in the gut.
Images: Top image - ‘Clostridium difficile’ credit: Wellcome Images. Bottom image - credit: Giphy.
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This show Transplant…for the love of god, how are like 50 doctors running around this hospital with 1 nurse between them? Take 95% of these doctor characters and make them nurses and this show would make so much more sense. Nurses would never let you treat a kid with diphtheria in a damn emergency room. This is so crazy stupid.
