Re: [escepticos] Método Voronoff

[Ramon Diaz-Alersi]

2006/10/22, Ignacio Iribarnegaray <eri.frufru en gmail.com>:
> Saludos,
>
> Acabo de ver esto en un blog y no sé cómo tomármelo:
> http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2006/08/el-mtodo-voronoff.html
>
> Transplantes de testículos de mono en humanos? Cada vez que lo pienso me
> suena, a parte de algo sacado de South Park, a mogollón de gente con
> necrosis en los testículos :-S
>
> Es un "Trabajo de Himbestigación"? Una coña? Artículos basados en artículos
> basados en fuentes no fiables?
> Alguien sabe algo de esto?


Simplemente, historia de la medicina. Aún no se habían descubierto los
andrógenos, pero sí sus efectos:

Rejuvenation in the early 20th century.

* Schultheiss D, * Denil J, * Jonas U.

Department of Urology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany.

The first theoretical reflections concerning the relation of hormone
production with the ageing process stemmed from Charles Edouard
Brown-Sequard (1817 1894). At the age of 72 years he experimented on
himself with an injection of animal testicular extract. The Viennese
physiologist Eugen Steinach (1861 1944) gained world-wide
acknowledgement for his theory of 'autoplastic' treatment of ageing.
He deduced that after vasoligation, an increased incretory hormonal
production would ensue following the cessation of the secretory output
of the gonads. The first operation was performed in 1918 and resulted
in a vasectomy boom over the next two decades. The Russian Serge
Voronoff (1866 1951), working in Paris, was one of the first to
transplant testicular tissue from a monkey into a human reproductive
gland in 1920. Five years later he had already performed this
procedure on 300 patients and attracted patients from all over the
world. In America early efforts of human testicular transplantation
were performed by Frank Lydston and V.D. Lespinasse. Steinach's
vasoligation was taken over by many American doctors, e.g., Harry
Benjamin and Charles H. Chetwood. Among the patients who underwent a
rejuvenation operation according to Steinach's method were Sigmund
Freud (1856 1939) and the Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner William
Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Two caricatures from the German magazine
Simplicissimus published in 1927, confirm that the rejuvenation
operations were constantly in the limelight of the printed media. From
1935 onwards rejuvenation operations gradually lost their appeal due
to the introduction of artificial androgens.

PMID: 9430441 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Saludos.


-- 
Ramón Díaz-Alersi