Rejuvenation and the prolongation of human efficiency : experiences with the Steinach-operation on man and animals / by Dr. Paul Kammerer, with an introduction by Dr. Harry Benjamin.

  • Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926.
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[1924]
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Credit: Rejuvenation and the prolongation of human efficiency : experiences with the Steinach-operation on man and animals / by Dr. Paul Kammerer, with an introduction by Dr. Harry Benjamin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It was in the summer of 1921; I had gone up to the beautiful Semmering mountains, near Vi¬ enna, to visit Professor Eugen Steinach. After spending a very pleasant day with him, during which he explained to me at length the theory and the fundamental experiments of his method of rejuvenation, I expressed a desire to see his famous specimens of animals that gave evidence of his ingenious work. The Professor consented immediately, telling me that his collaborator for many years, Dr. Paul Kammerer, who was in Vienna at the time, would demonstrate the speci¬ mens to me, and he gave me a letter of introduc¬ tion to him. The next day I met Kammerer. Attired in a well worn laboratory coat, he was working all alone at the Biological Institute, which the Viennese call the “Vivarium.” Its spacious halls were almost empty and deserted, and Kammerer’s lonely scientific work greatly impressed upon me the dire need of Austrian sci¬ ence after the World War. I found the doctor to be a very impressive, serious man. In his exact scientific manner, he pointed out to me the famous specimens of those guinea pigs whose sex had been changed by Steinach’s ingenious methods, and