Review of Life--A Study of the Means of Restoring Vital Energy and Prolonging Life

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Reviews the book, Life--A Study of the Means of Restoring Vital Energy and Prolonging Life by Serge Voronoff (1920). The cynic who casts all theories about the prolongation of life into the scrap heap made up of the use of sour milk, tobacco, malt liquors or the abstention from them will not have such ease in discerning flaws in the logic of Dr. Serge Voronoff. His photographic evidence is hardly debatable, and his vital statistics hardly of the sort which we can suspect of having been juggled to fit his thesis. The book is written in somewhat popular style and the serious student wishes for more detail as to the surgeon's operative method and more exhaustive historical survey of glandular transplantation. The chief defect of the volume is its omission of references to works of well-known American surgeons who have for at least six years actually performed these operations successfully on human patients. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)