SHADOWS 
AND SUNSHINE 
By 
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J. R. BRINKLEY, m.d., Sc. d. 
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Fellow American Association for the 
Advancement of Science; Member 
American Congress of Internal Med- 
icine ; Member National Institute 
Social Sciences; Member National 
Geographic Society; Member The 
Association for the Study of Inter- 
nal Secretions; Member American 
Hospital Association. 
Published by Dr. J. R. Brinkley 
Milford*.’ Kansas Copyright 1923 
By Dr. J. R. Brinkley 
Milford, Kansas PREFACE 
No apology is offered for producing this third 
volume dealing with my work at the Brinkley 
Jones Hospital, Milford, Kansas, U. S. A. In 
the early Spring of 1921 I had published a small 
book entitled, “Goat Gland Transplantation.” 
This edition was soon exhausted and was re- 
printed two or three times and in June, 1922, 
I had published another book entitled, “The 
Brinkley Operation,” which has already run 
through three or four editions. Each of these 
books had its shortcomings which were called 
to my attention by my many correspondents. The 
majority of people buying these books did so 
with a view of having the operation performed 
upon themselves and after reading the book the 
patient was left in a state of indecision. They 
could not figure out whether the operation was 
indicated in their particular case or not, because 
it is common knowledge that every patient has 
his own pet set of symptoms and suffers from 
the common belief that he is a little different 
from anyone else. 
While it is true that no two cases are exactly 
alike, that is to say, no two people will state 
their case just the same, yet the underlying 
cause of their trouble is exactly the same. It is 
with this in mind that I have produced this mono- 
graph letting the patients tell the story before 
and after operation. 
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In order to confine this monograph to a rea- 
sonable size, it is impossible for me to elaborate 
or discuss each case herein presented, as to do 
so would make a book of several hundred pages. 
The average patient in presenting his case to a 
surgeon by correspondence usually requires four 
to twelve pages of written matter and after be- 
ing here and operated upon and returning home, 
his correspondence after the operation is dou- 
bled. So I have excerpted their letters before 
and after operation, but no surgeon could de- 
scribe the various peculiar aches and pains as 
these patients have done,_and I believe in this 
presentation of over one hundred cases that the 
diversified symptoms stated by each patient will 
convey more understanding to the layman who 
is going to read this book than any amount of 
material I might write. I believe that with the 
mass of symptoms presented that the average 
prospective patient can locate his trouble in the 
pages of this book. With this thought in view 
this little volume is presented for your careful 
perusal. 
I am asking you to ever remember that these 
statements are bona fide and that my Secretary 
has copied them from my files in this office. 
Cordially yours, 
John R. Brinkley, M. D. INTRODUCTION 
I began transplanting animal glands into hu- 
mans at Milford, Kansas, in the Autumn of 1917. 
At that time the function of glands was veiled in 
mystery. Very little was known of our internal 
secretions. Since then medical books, medical 
journals as well as lay journals, magazines and 
newspapers have filled their most valuable news 
space with the results and arguments for and 
against this new line of surgery. 
I claim credit for being the originator of ani- 
mal-to-human gland transplantation and my con- 
tention has been granted me by such a recognized 
scientific writer as Dr. W. H. Ballou, of New 
York City. 
As to human gland transplantation I am con- 
vinced that Dr. G. Frank Lydston, of Chicago, 
Illinois, was the first to transplant human glands 
and as early as 1914. I cannot credit Dr. Voro- 
noff, of Paris, France, with being the originator 
of any method of gland transplantation. After 
reports of my work had been published in Eu- 
rope and America, Dr. Voronoff announced his 
monkey gland transplantation. Dr. Lydston re- 
plied that Voronoff was merely copying from his 
(Lydston’s) book, and under challenge from Dr. 
Lydston, Dr. Voronoff acknowledged that it was 
true. 
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Dr. Stanley is to be credited with the working 
out of a very promising method by maceration 
of various gland substances and injecting them 
with a hypodermic syringe. This method is to be 
preferred to the taking into the stomach of gland 
preparations in any form; however, in selected 
cases and to those unfortunates whom we ever 
have with us, the oral administration of reliable 
gland products or the hypodermic use of same, 
have their field of usefulness, but it is silly to 
suppose that the hypodermic injection of glands 
or the internal administration of the same, where 
they mix with the stomach and intestinal juices, 
can ever be as effective as the surgical trans- 
plantation of the living gland into the human 
body, where its substance goes directly into the 
blood stream. 
As I predicted five years ago, gland surgery 
for the alleviation of suffering would in a few 
years be as commonly practiced as the removal 
of diseased teeth or tonsils, and I am glad to say 
that my prediction is rapidly coming true. 
There is more excitement today concerning the 
function of our various glands than in any other 
branch of science, and the keen interest evidenced 
means but one thing, that this new surgery is pro- 
ducing unheard of results and that further valu- 
able discoveries will soon be made. Every gland 
in our body has its own specific function and all 
glands are connected with one another through 
the lymphatic system which forms a chain; one 
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their proper function and the net result is many 
symptoms arise which are ofttimes misleading. 
We are all familiar with the fact that if one tele- 
phone in a system gets out of order that it is with 
difficulty the other patrons are served, and so it 
is with our gland system. If one lays down on 
the job the others are handicapped. 
In the first chapter of this book I will point out 
to you some clear cut examples of the lack of 
glands, so that you may be able to clearly under- 
stand what I mean. GLANDS AND THEIR FUNCTION 
We are all familiar with the stallion as com- 
pared to the dray horse. The stallion is full of 
life and never willing to stand still, but prefers 
to paw the ground, chew his bit and seek the 
female of his species. He is a better animal in 
contrast to his brother, the dray horse, who was 
castrated when a colt. Observe the sparkling, 
bright eyes of the stallion as compared to the 
complacent ones of his castrated brother. Ob- 
serve his long, flowing mane, his beautifully 
rounded out and curved neck, his glossy hair and 
his appearance of health and particularly the 
elasticity of his step. Observe his castrated 
brother, the old dray horse, who is too slow and 
who has so little interest in life that he would 
make no effort to get out of the way of approach- 
ing danger. He cares nothing about the associa- 
tion of the female; life to him is one humdrum 
affair. Give him water to drink and food to eat 
and he will stand around and sleep until prodded 
bv his master. 
Compare the caponized rooster with his un- 
caponized brother. He almost reverts to an old 
hen, he takes on weight, becomes very fleshy, his 
tissues are soft and are more edible than his 
brother. He cares nothing about the hen; he will 
eat the worms she scratches if permitted to do so, 
while the cock will scratch and feed his hen as 
well as her little ones. The caponized rooster 
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will set on the eggs of the hen and hatch them 
and accept any food offered and is pleased to 
avoid all manner of work. He is a coward; he 
will not fight or protect his hen, while the cock 
is king of the flock and is proud of his position. 
I could take you through the entire animal 
kingdom and in all cases the example is the same. 
I think these two illustrations are sufficient to 
serve the purpose. 
In Turkey and some other countries, men of 
wealth own and maintain what are called harems. 
These are presided over by eunuchs, the latter 
being men who have been castrated for this par- 
ticular purpose. They are harmless in every re- 
spect and compare favorably with the old dray 
horse or the caponized rooster. 
Probably you are acquainted with some man 
who through accident or disease has suffered cas- 
tration. If so, you will observe that he has be- 
come fleshy, but his flesh is soft and flabby. He 
has probably lost his beard and if stripped, it 
would be found that the hairy portions of his 
body were devoid of all hair. There is a change 
in his voice, his hips are broadened, his thighs 
enlarged and he has assumed what we call femi- 
nine characteristics. 
A few years ago we had a surgical craze for 
the removal of the ovaries of the women, just as 
we have recently gone through a craze for the 
removal of tonsils and teeth. There will never 
be a blacker spot in the history of surgery than 
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woman for the cure of many nervous complexes. 
I am not going to discuss in detail the abominable 
and distressing symptoms suffered by every wom- 
an who has been unsexed. You who have un- 
dergone this mutilating surgery know what I 
mean, and those of you who have not I warn you 
to not do so. 
In a general discussion of the function of 
glands, let me call your attention to typical cases 
that exist in every community. You are familiar 
with these cases, but probably have not recog- 
nized them. In every town and country we have 
the sluggard, the ne’er-do-well. It is always too 
hot or too cold or there is some reason why they 
cannot work to earn a living; they are chron- 
ically sick, making the lives of the local physi- 
cians miserable. They are no good to themselves 
nor to anyone else. They have good appetites 
and never miss a meal, but they can never do a 
day’s work, and no doctor has ever been able to 
put energy into them. Why? What is the mat- 
ter with these people? They are usually thin, 
somewhat underweight, having a peculiar pallor, 
and they are not very bright mentally. I will tell 
you: they are suffering from hypoadrenia. What 
is this? A lack of secretions of the adrenal 
glands, which are located about on top of each 
kidney. These glands are the fighters. You take 
men or women who have plenty of adrenal secre- 
tions and they are never whipped. They may be 
overpowered and out-generaled and even fought 
into unconsciousness and collapse in complete ex- 
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Another gland that has something to do with 
this type of individual is the thyroid. The thy- 
roid assists in poise, beauty and balance of char- 
acter. Too much of it is just as disastrous as not 
enough; we must maintain the equilibrium. Peo- 
ple with low blood pressure need support of their 
adrenals. Long ago I coined the phrase, “all 
energy is sex energy,” and that a man was as 
old as his glands instead of as old as his arteries, 
and this has proven true in every particular. The 
scientific world has recognized the importance of 
the ductless glands. Remove the adrenal glands 
or the para-thyroids and you have a dead patient. 
Remove a person’s gonads, or sexual glands, and 
they might as well be dead because they are 
worth nothing to themselves or anyone else. In 
the thousands of men and women that I have 
examined who were sick I have yet to find one, 
regardless of what they were suffering, that had 
normal sexual glands. 
Let me tell you something that you will recog- 
nize as soon as I have spoken. When a man or 
woman begins to slip, go backward, lose energy, 
lack of will power, the first part of their body 
that they notice has weakened is their sexual 
organs. After this weakening in the sexual or- 
gans, nervousness, inability to sleep, loss of en- 
ergy, loss of “pep,” inability to concentrate and a 
general slowing down of the entire body begins 
to take place, because when this big dynamo, this 
great power house, ceases to function properly, 
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I am as firmly convinced as anything that I 
know of that men about the age of forty-five 
undergo a change of life, in a like manner to that 
of women. A woman knows she does because 
of the stoppage of her menses. A man should 
know that he does because of the enormous slow- 
ing down of his energy and capacity in every 
way imaginable. 
I believe, in a book of this size that this dis- 
cussion is lengthy enough and forcible enough to 
convince the reader without further elaboration 
of the soundness of my principal attack upon dis- 
ease and the prolonging of human life. DISEASES INFLUENCED BY GLAND 
TRANSPLANTATION 
In cataloging the diseases influenced by gland 
transplantation, I have found it a difficult thing 
to do, because it is very easy to make statements 
that are misleading without qualifying such state- 
ments, which I shall attempt to do. 
Impotency and sterility head the list. I am 
justified in making the broad statement that I am 
of the opinion that every man or woman I oper- 
ate upon are impotent more or less, regardless of 
the diseases they may have had or may be suf- 
fering from. Many of my patients deny impo- 
tency and sterility. This is useless on their part 
because our method of examination proves their 
true condition to us and we have yet find the 
patient, regardless of age, occupation or position 
in life, that did not give their impotency first 
consideration. It matters not how badly para- 
lyzed they may be or how desperately ill they 
might be, they secretly wish for an improvement 
in their sexual apparatus. A great many men 
and women have me operate upon them for ster- 
ility because this can usually be overcome. Men 
or women who have lost one or more of their 
sexual glands, obtain a great deal of relief and 
ofttimes a restoration to normal by having the 
animal sex glands transplanted. 
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Enlarged prostate, accompanied by frequent 
urination and high blood pressure, are a close 
second. To my knowledge I have never oper- 
ated upon any man who was suffering from high 
blood pressure, regardless of how high it was 
and regardless of the amount of treatment re- 
ceived without lowering it, who did not have his 
blood pressure reduced to normal within a short 
time following my operation. To those men 
who have enlarged prostates and contemplate 
their removal, I advise against it, because when 
the prostate gland is removed, I can do nothing 
for you. I have operated upon many men who 
have been told by the best surgeons of this coun- 
try that their prostate should be removed, but 
after my operation it returned to a normal size 
and consistency with complete relief. 
The goat glands seem to have an affinity for 
hardening of the arteries, and in those cases of 
hard arteries that I have been permitted to ex- 
amine after operation, I have found a marked 
softening. It is natural to suppose that the 
arteries must be softened in order to reduce blood 
pressure. 
In threatened apoplexy or following apoplexy, 
my operation is strongly indicated, because in 
lowering the blood pressure and softening the 
arteries the danger of a stroke is avoided and 
future strokes are prevented. 
In locomotor ataxia, where there is much pain, 
the operation has been found of desired benefit 
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in comfort, and many report a great deal of 
strength in their weakened limbs. 
In paralysis of unknown origin or in paralysis 
produced by a stroke, I have seen wonderful re- 
sults follow my operation. 
In disease of the pancreas, liver, spleen, stom- 
ach and intestinal tract, I have observed wonder- 
ful recoveries, because all of these are dependent 
upon gland secretions, and after the operation all 
the glands began to function normally; hence 
the annihilation of all symptoms. 
In psoriasis and eczema, as well as acne, I have 
observed complete cures and the freedom from 
all itching and eruptions on the skin. 
In constipation of years’ duration I have ob- 
served complete relief, and this is easily explained 
because when the glands of the stomach and 
bowels cease to function, there is a natural slug- 
gishness, producing constipation. After gland 
transplantation and these glands again function, 
why, of course, it is natural for the patient to 
have complete relief. 
In failing eye sight due to high blood pressure, 
I have observed patients who could no longer 
wear glasses because of the marked improve- 
ment in their vision, due, no doubt, to the lower- 
ing of the blood pressure and a relief from con- 
gestion in the eyes; head noises have in like man- 
ner disappeared. 
In diabetes and Bright’s disease, we have had 
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In melancholia and the thousand and one other 
kinds of nervousness that people suffer from, 
brilliant results have been obtained following my 
operation. These are so complex that I have not 
the space here to discuss them. 
Mental diseases are closely related to insanity, 
dementia praecox heading the list, and we have 
obtained some wonderful cures. I have in mind 
specific cases of patients who have spent years 
in insane asylums being brought here from the 
asylum and being completely cured. But in in- 
sanity and epilepsy there is always foci of infec- 
tion in the tonsils, teeth, gall bladder, appendix 
and various other portions of the body which 
must receive their share of surgery. It is neces- 
sary for all pus and infections to be removed 
from the body of these patients and then to trans- 
plant pure, healthy glands for their rebuilding 
effects. 
It is proper to state that my work is that of 
a general surgeon and that gland transplantation 
is my specialty. I advise operation and do oper- 
ate upon all of my patients who suffer from 
hernias, chronic appendices, or any diseases re- 
quiring surgical operation. 
I have only touched upon a few of the most 
important diseases in which I have witnessed 
startlingly good results, and I am leaving it to my 
patients in the following pages to tell their own 
stories. PATIENTS’ STATEMENTS 
Suffered Tortures of the Damned 
Briefly, the history of my case is as follows: My 
age forty-six, married nineteen years. In all my life 
I have never had an instance of normal sexual inter- 
course. Never attempted intercourse prior to mar- 
riage, otherwise the tragedy might have been saved. 
Sexual excitement at all times caused ejaculation prior 
to the penis entering the vagina, or immediately there- 
after. My wife had had all the pain possible attending 
the birth of two boys, without a particle of the pleasures 
of sexual life. 
You will wonder that we are still living together, 
and had it not been for these boys, which are two fine 
specimens, no doubt I should have put a gun to my 
head, as many times I contemplated doing, and end 
my wife’s misery. 
I forgot to tell you in the former paragraph that on 
account of the small size of the sexual organs I was 
dubious about the advisability of marriage, and con- 
sulted a physician in this regard. He, however, was 
emphatic in his opinion that this would in no way 
militate against our happiness. I have as yet no way 
of knowing whether or not he might have been right. 
I went to John Hopkins Hospital to have my case 
treated, but nothing resulted. During the last nine 
years I have been steadily going down hill, both finan- 
cially and in my physical ability to earn a living. In 
short, I am an old man, a very old man indeed. My 
arteries are young, however, but sexually F am impotent, 
or nearly so. Possibly my condition may now be worse 
than I have related (though it could hardly be that), 
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as I have not attempted intercourse for about eight 
years. 
I am not going to burden you with further details 
of my case, tho I believe the history in its entirety 
would make one of the most horrible tragic tales. If 
hell is any worse than we have thru we want to 
stay away, for I can assure you that \tfe have suffered 
the tortures of the damned. 
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“I am gradually beginning to feel a ‘spring in my 
heel’ as it were, and am getting an optimistic view of 
the world in general and myself in particular. I feel 
that untold benefits are in store for me.” 
This man is now happy, as is his wife also. 
Had Lost Control of Herself 
My wife some years ago had an operation performed 
and I am not sure whether one or both' tubes were re- 
moved. She still menstruates but only spasmodically, 
as it is two or three months between periods. At times 
she acts like a crazy person. In going along a crowded 
street where the shopping public are moving slowly she 
will all of a sudden put on a burst of speed, pushing 
the people out of her way, much to my mental anguish. 
At times she gets up in the morning looking and acting 
like a demon. At sight of a man’s privates her desire 
for sexual intercourse is very great but it takes her an 
exceedingly long time to come to the climax while hav- 
ing same. She is very tempermental, extremely fond 
of telling lies of a harmless kind. She craves for things 
and as soon as she gets them she doesn’t want them. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Wonderful recovery and another home made happy 
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I am fifty-seven, hale and hearty, weigh 190, height 
5 ft. 10 in., and as far as I know have no ailment ex- 
cept impotency. Since arriving at fifty there has been 
a gradual loss in sexual power, until at the present 
time there is a non-erection, but a small sexual appetite, 
prevails. I have a disinclination for work, and although 
carrying on my business, find it hard to do so. Can 
work only three or four hours a day. 
Impotent, Losing Strength 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery. 
A Typical Case of Syphilis 
I am fifty-five years of age and will say that I have 
to move very slowly and even then my head becomes 
very dizzy. Perhaps you will understand my case more 
fully if I tell you that I think my trouble all comes 
from a case of syphilis contracted in 1898. I was 
treated by Dr. of Boston in the B Dispensary. 
Dr. was acknowledged as an authority on ven- 
ereal disease and he said mine was a genuine, typical 
case, shown in the mottled back. I followed his treat- 
ment very faithfully indeed for three years and then 
hei told be I could discontinue it. In the spring of 1908 
my right knee had the feeling of going to sleep, a 
feeling of numbness, and it extended down to my toes 
and up to the small of my back. In 1907 Dr. be- 
gan pumping the “606” into my arm. It certainly 
helped me a great deal. It did relieve the dizziness, 
some but there is lots of room for improvement. 
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Threatened with Locomotor Ataxia 
I have not yet developed locomotor ataxia, but as I 
understand it, I may with any further progress of the 
trouble. My trouble is old, having had its start in the 
fall of 1893, when I contracted syphilis. Have doctored 
thoroughly, and for years was apparently quite well. 
Then commenced to have those awful shooting pains, 
with which I suffered for years; then last fall, all of a 
sudden, I developed another entirely different phase, 
right out of a clear sky. I was walking along and all 
of a sudden it was with difficulty that I could keep go- 
ing. As near as I can describe it is as follows: From 
my feet up a ways tingled and burned and at my hips 
I seemed to lack power, and after a while could not 
pick up my feet and keep going. Lately the bottoms of 
the forward part of my feet seem to be growing sort 
of numb, and, after setting with my legs crossed for 
some time, they are apt to get asleep and bother me to 
walk for a while. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery from all of these annoying symp- 
toms. 
Had Locomotor Ataxia for Years 
I have locomotor ataxia; have had it for six years. 
The doctors say I can’t be cured. My troubles are from 
my knees to my feet. I can walk some with the use of 
a stick but have not been able to work for seven months. 
“My knees are getting better, slow but sure. Your 
Goat Glands have helped me more than all the other 
remedies I have used. To be rid of those severe pains 
I used to have in my legs is worth more than the 
price you charge for the operation.” 
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About a year ago I had Spanish Influenza very badly. 
I have never regained my health, energy or ambition en- 
tirely. As well as my health generally not being good 
and being under a continuous nervous strain, I am im- 
potent, as a result of the flu. I am a single man, thirty- 
three years of age. I had moderately good health before 
taking the influenza, but sexual powers not good. 
Impotent After Having Influenza 
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“I will make mention of the progress of my case. My 
scrotum has returned to normal size. I feel no pain 
in the crotum. My feeling of well being, and lack of 
previous nervousness must indicate that my blood pres- 
sure, returned to normal, is staying normal. My prior 
too frequent nocturnal emissions must be a thing of 
the past as I have not experienced an emission since 
about a month ago.” 
I was an extremely strong and well person and my 
troubles are all due to frightful mental strain and emo- 
tional excesses, having so debilitated me mentally and 
physically that I really think I have softening of the 
brain. In my mental condition I can’t take hold of 
anything. I feel very old and cannot conetaoshrdlettao 
anything. I have lost all sense or power of enjoyment. 
I feel very old and cannot concentrate at all. 
Had Lost All Power of Enjoyment 
AFTER OPERATION 
“I want to thank you for your kindness and attention 
and for making my stay so pleasant. I am opening 
a Studio at . I am feeling well and very hopeful 
for the future.” 
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I am fifty years old, in good health, weigh 200 pounds. 
Three years ago lost sexual power entirely. Parts be- 
came shrunken and of late have been annoying me quite 
a little. 
Annoyed by Loss of Sexual Power 
“I am benefitted by the operation and believe I will 
improve more in time. I am telling my friends that 
I think it is the greatest discovery of the age.” 
AFTER OPERATION 
Said His Vitality Was Gone 
I am a man fifty-three years old, well preserved, but 
I find that my vitality is gone. 
AFTER OPERATION 
I am all healed up and feeling fine. That little goat 
of yours gave me my steady nerve back. 
Said He Was Incurable 
I was in a hospital for eight months in 1918 while 
in the service with a nervous complaint and was dis- 
charged from the service as incurable. Have lacked 
endurance and “pep” both mentally and physically ever 
since, with no signs of improvement. I have absolutely 
no blood disease and have never used liquor or drugs 
in any form. 
AFTER OPERATION 
He now enjoys excellent health and feels life worth 
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Doctor Wanted to Remove Ovaries and Tubes 
I am fifty years old, always well until the flu; had 
it the third time. Have always worked and must keep 
well enough to enjoy any work that comes to me. My 
eyes are giving me trouble now and my ankles get so 
stia at times it is painful to get around. Old age seems 
to be on my trail, as after the last spell of flu my hair 
came in rather grey. When I lift a bucket of water or 
coal, as I often do many times a day, I have a heavy 
pain in my left side. When I went to the doctor about 
it, he said “We will remove the ovaries and tubes,” with- 
out even an examination, but I came away and have 
never gone back, for many women have had the same 
operation and have never been strong again. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“I certainly was disappointed at not seeing you and 
Mrs. Brinkley. You would have been amazed at the 
change you would have found in me, as I am getting 
so well and strong.” 
Contracted Caisson Disease 
I am thirty-seven years old. About fourteen years 
ago I was acting as construction engineer in Pennsyl- 
vania tunnels under the river in New York City, and 
working under pressure of forty-five pounds. Con- 
tracted caisson disease, which left me in a badly para- 
lyzed state. Have gradually recovered since that time, 
but still walk badly, with two canes, and have only par- 
tial feeling and control of lower limbs. This condition 
has left me with a sensitive bladder, bowel trouble in 
the form of diminished power of expulsion, and as 
stated, quite lame from the accident. 
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Had Slight Paralysis, Sciatica, Hernia 
I am fifty-one years old, am slightly paralyzed on the 
left side, but have improved in the last year. I have 
writer’s cramp and sciatica. I am also afflicted with a 
hernia. 
Wonderful recovery. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Had Tried Many Treatments Without Benefit 
I am an architectural engineer, thirty-five years of 
age. When I was only a boy of fourteen my brain was 
simply possessed by the sexual theme. For three or 
four years I reveled in all the ramifications of this sub- 
ject, night and day, and at the end of that time I woke 
up to find I was so seriously weakened nervously and 
sexually that there was no longer any building up of 
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strength possible. I imagine you would classify me as 
a “mental masturbator,” as I did very little of the other. 
As time went on I grew weaker and weaker and at this 
time I think you could say I am just about gone, to 
the extent that I was about at the point of suicide when 
I picked up the paper and read the above-mentioned 
article. I have tried every form of treatment that I 
could learn of, without the slightest benefit. A curious 
phase of my trouble is the fact that I am strong and 
vigorous in every respect, except in this one thing. 
Anything in the way of stimulation of my own glands 
seems to make we all the worse. They are apparently 
too weakened to respond, or rather, re-act to stimula- 
tion. 
Complete recovery and a very happy man. 
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I have a brother, an expert accountant, now fifty-four 
years old, who has in the past ten or twelve years de- 
veloped epilepsy through too close application to work 
and neglect of health. For many years he was troubled 
with constipation, also has had prostate gland trouble 
and a bad stricture. 
Had Epilepsy and Prostate Gland Trouble 
AFTER OPERATION 
Operated with wonderful success. The brother who 
wrote this letter had the operation himself account of 
the results in this case of epilepsy. 
Catches Cold Easily—Weak Stomach 
I went to a doctor in about eight years ago 
and he said I had varicocele and hydrocele and per- 
formed an operation and took out part of the glands 
and gave me a strong nerve tonic for about six months. 
I gained weight and got strong as an ox and felt better 
than I ever did. Then I took down with malaria which 
went in to the worst stage of dumb ague. I kept fight- 
ing it by taking medicine and changing climate till I 
finally got rid of it about the first of this year, after 
having it seven years. I had the flu a year ago last 
November and that seem'ed to settle in the nervous 
system and leave me in bad shape. I am bothered with 
my stomach if I am not careful what I eat and eat too 
much. I catch cold every change of the weather. I 
have spells that will last a week or two at a time. My 
brain is clouded and not active and I feel dizzy like I 
was about to faint. Then I might have a few days 
when I can think clear. A little over-exertion or over- 
eating seems to put me clear out of business. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery—made a new man out of him. 28 
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Suffered Nervous Breakdown 
I am fifty years of age, in excelent physical health 
except for a nervous instability and a certain amount of 
insomnia. Twenty years ago I broke down from over- 
strain and have never recovered sufficiently to resume 
my practice. I am easily exhausted. The winter cli- 
mate overstimulates my weak nerves and a collapse al- 
ways follows in the spring. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Resumed and continues his practice. 
I have a daughter that I would like to inquire about 
and see whether you could help her. She is twenty 
years of age, has gone through high school and attends 
college. Occasionally, the last two years, she has nerv- 
ous spells and seems depressed at times and wants to 
kill herself. “Has it in” for her mother, when, in fact, 
her mother is good to her. Cries and thinks that some 
one is talking about her and what girls will say if she 
goes careless in her dress. I have had her in a private 
sanitarium for five weeks at one time and she was 
greatly improved. Brought her back home and had later 
on to send her back again. She continually keeps after 
her mother and says that she doesn’t believe that she 
loves her, and other things. I fact, I am afraid that 
she is getting worse and will lose her mind if something 
is not done soon. 
Daughter Theatened with Dementia Praecox 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery and is in training for the nursing 
profession. “***I am /sure that Mrs. and I thank 
you from the bottom of our hearts for what you have 
done for us and send our best regards.” Shadows and Sunshine 
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Insane—Contemplated Suicide 
I am the employer of the young men who will call 
on you today for treatment, and I want to communicate 
to you my experience as to the sickness of said young 
man, whose main trouble, I believe, is a pathologic con- 
dition of his mind, very near to insanity. The first 
strange attitude I noticed on his part was when I found 
him in the office, on a winter day, working in under- 
wear. I called his attention to the absurdity of taking 
off his shirt to work in an office, and he explained that 
he was afraid of the dust in the papers he was filing. 
Two or three months after his arrival he started com- 
plaining from sickness, starting with stomach trouble, 
notwithstanding the fact that he ate heartily. Since that 
time he has been feeling sick of every sickness in the 
world. One time he complains of stomach trouble, 
next of bladder trouble, other times his liver is bad. 
One day he said it was one molar tooth he had filled 
with gold that was making him sick. He went and had 
an X-ray picture of the tooth and then had it taken out. 
After this he was very much concerned because he be- 
lieved the hole from the tooth had gangrened. Some 
time ago, while taking some letters, he suddenly stood 
up and started singing. Another time he took a lettter 
opener from my desk and, giving it to me, stated that 
I was trying to kill him with it. The drawers of his 
desk are full of pills, oils, tonics, magnesiums, emul- 
sions, and all sorts of medicines he is continually try- 
ing. He talks frequently of committing suicide. He 
lies very easily and frequently. 
AFTER OPERATION 
This young man was in the Diplomatic Service and 
quite insane. Completely cured and restored to his 
position in society. 30 
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No Sexual Power—Could Not Sleep 
I am a man forty-four years old and nearly six feet 
tall, weigh 180 pounds, and my health is very good ex- 
cept that I don’t sleep very yell. My big trouble is 
I don’t seem to have any sexual power. 
AFTER OPERATION 
He sleeps now and is pleased with results. 
Lost Her Vitality—Couldn’t Sleep 
I am past forty-two years of age and have been hav- 
ing the change of life for the two years past. Since 
the removal of my last ovary a year ago I seem to have 
lost my vitality and my mind gets tired. I am trou- 
bled with insomnia, having gone ten days and nights 
without sleep. I am also bothered with hot flashes. 
Gave her two new ovaries and a new lease on life. 
Very happy. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Otherwise He Was All Right 
When I was examined for the army the doctor said 
my eyes were defective, had septic tonsils, bad heart 
caused from neuralgia, central piles, varicocele, and 
troubled with the gleet. 
Fine ecovery and a pleased patient. 
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Testicles Injured in Accident 
A good many years ago an accident injured my tes- 
ticles and they have gradually withered up and become 
soft and flabby. Of course my erections are poor and 
unsatisfactory. I am fifty-two years of age and strong 
and healthy in every other respect. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Brinkley Operation brought about the desired re- 
sults. 
Mildly Insane 
I have a daughter twenty-seven years of age who is 
mildly insane. Her case has puzzled physicians here- 
abouts, some declaring her not insane but having a 
form of brain nerve disease, etc. She was a very bois- 
terous girl when young but showed no bad tendencies. 
She is still loving and kind hearted, but extremely im- 
pulsive. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Now normal and happy. 
Gets Dizzy and Falls Down 
I have had dizzy spells ever since last April. I just 
get dizzy and fall over. The spells come on about every 
three or four weeks. They have doctored me for liver 
and kidneys and the colon but haven’t gained anything. 
AFTER OPERATION 
This man had epilepsy. Recovered. 32 
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Had Epilepsy—Hoped to Outgrow It 
1 have a married daughter who has epilepsy. Until 
a short time ago she believed that she would outgrow 
it, but now she has given up the idea and told me today 
that she did not believe she would ever get over it. 
None of the families of her grandparents are known 
to have had the disease. Her mother at the time of 
her birth had Bright’s disease and rheumatism quite 
badly. The first developments were about the age of 
twelve, by a dimness of vision, so we had to take her 
out of school. They became violent at the age of four- 
teen or fifteen. At present, spells are more less constant 
and at times violent. The after effects are pains in the 
head and soreness about the base of the brain. She has 
no warning of the coming on of the spells. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Recovered before leaving hospital and remains so. 
I am fifty-one years old, in fairly good health, gen- 
erally speaking. Am troubled a good deal with con- 
stipation and nervousness. When I was about twenty 
years old had a bad case of varicocele, was operated up- 
on unsuccessfully and about eight years later had an- 
other operation, opening the scrotum and having it re- 
moved bodily. Since then have not suffered any direct 
inconvenience from the varicocele. I have never been 
sexually robust but in the last fey years have been al- 
most impotent, a deplorable condition, and a cause of 
great mental worry and depression to me. 
Constipated, Nervous and Almost Impotent 
AFTER OPERATION 
Restored to health and enjoys life. One End of Operating Room, Brinkley Hospital Shadows and Sunshine 
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Was Nervous and Despondent 
I underwent an operation removing one ovary and 
both tubes about eight years ago. I am very nervous, 
despondent and depressed at times and naturally unable 
to have children for which I long. I menstruate very 
regularly, but scanty. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Now happy and life worth living. 
Slipping—Easily Fatigued 
I find that I have become very much fatigued and 
cannot accomplish nearly the work I was able to do 
several years ago. My health has been uniformly good. 
Have never had any serious illness. I feel mental as 
well as physical exhaustion if I apply myself very 
strenuously. Am past my seventy-second year. 
Brinkley Operation brought about the desired nor- 
mal feeling. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Suffering from Impotency Due to Infection 
I am suffering from impotency due to an infection 
of gonorrhea. In fact, I have not been free from this 
disease for twenty years. I will soon be forty years 
old. I do not have a discharge but I know that the 
gonococci are there. 
Complete recovery. 
AFTER OPERATION 34 
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Afflicted With Enlarged Prostate Gland 
I am afflicted with gland trouble; have been for quite 
a long time. The doctor who treated me for some time 
said I had prostate trouble. I have constant headache, 
with a buzzing noise in ears which impairs my hearing 
very much; cold hands and feet, cannot endure but 
little cold, especially moist cold weather. There is also 
an oozing from penis when I get an erection, which is 
not so often now, but I feel there is also some oozing 
at all times, for I feel it slightly on my person. I am 
fifty-seven years of age and have good health otherwise. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Fine recovery and a happy patient. 
Had Neuritis and Locomotor Ataxia 
I have heard of your treatment of locomotor ataxia 
and write for further information. Broke down sud- 
denly and completely in 1920. Previous to this had 
neuritis in left arm for six years. After the break- 
down doctors gave me nine shots of Salvarsan in the 
arm and five spinal injections, but got worse instead 
of better. Finally decided they could do no more. It is 
the pain that keeps me down and if that could be 
stopped, or rather if the cause of the pain could be 
eradicated, I know I would soon be getting about. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“We arrived home Friday as per schedule, a little the 
worse for wear but still in the ring. And sleep, am 
doing more of it, successfully, than for years. Yes- 
terady being a fine day, took a ride down to the plant 
and spent an hour there. The first time in nearly two 
years!” Shadows and Sunshine 
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Last March I had the misfortune to have a very 
severe attack of prostatitis, the cause of which I do 
not know, unless from over-work and exposure. Not 
a day passes but I suffer more or less and know what 
the outcome will be if I do not get relief. Some of my 
surgeon friends advise removing the gland, but God 
knows, I do not care to take a chance on that. 
Suffered Severely from Prostatitis 
AFTER OPERATION 
“For the last four weeks I have been gaining very 
nicely. I am now able to walk three or four miles a 
day, get in my car and ride and make calls without 
suffering pain. I feel that this alone is worth all that 
the operation cost and more too.” 
You were recommended to me by a relative who re- 
cently returned from your hospital and I am writing 
you in regard to my case. Owing to an injurv during 
early womanhood, the female organs became misplaced 
and grew to the large intestine and back. An operation 
for acute appendicitis revealed this trouble. These or- 
gans were then put back in place and then I became 
very troubled with the bowels. Adhesions then re- 
sulting caused another operation but the surgeon in 
charge said the adhesions were so numerous and large 
that all he could do was tear them loose and rearrange 
the female organs. He also said that the fallopian 
tubes were partially obliterated and that this had been 
the cause of a sterile condition of my eleven years of 
married life. 
Organs Misplaced Through Injury 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery and a happy patient. 36 
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Depressed and Miserable Because of Condition 
I suffer mostly from extreme nervousness and a 
terrible depression that I cannot overcome. I have 
had to fight hard to keep away from booze and dope, 
and have taken tonics enough to float a canal boat. 
I know all my trouble originates from greatly weak- 
ened sexual organs. Although I am only forty-one 
years old, I am actually in the sexual condition of a 
man of sixty-five or seventy. Always considered my- 
self unfit to marry, consequently never had anything to 
do with women, either good or bad. I do not suffer 
any bodily pain, but I am having the most miserable 
existence imaginable. This depression is simply un- 
bearable at times. Am not fit for any business, and 
live a hermit’s life away from everyone. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Restored to health and old associates. Life is well 
worth living. 
An Apparently Hopeless Case 
I have been to Rochester to the Mayo’s and they said 
they could do nothing. They gave me just a short 
time to live. I have paralysis of the entire body. They 
told me it was nervousness and I would never get well. 
I could not eat a thing solid and very seldom able to 
drink even water; it would choke me and I did not 
have strength enough to cough. I cannot even smile 
and my eyes feel like they are crossed sometimes and 
sometimes I can hardlv talk so one can understand. 
I have been this way for three years and I am thirty- 
one. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Brinkley fixed him up and he still lives. Expert 
medical opinion in error. Shadows and Sunshine 
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I am all crippled up with rheumatic pains along the 
spine, shooting out in the muscles along the abdomen, 
down the pelvic bone and in the testicles, also all along 
the ribs up in the chest bone. Entirely prevents ex- 
pansion of the chest; my neck is getting stiff and can- 
not be bent forward without difficulty. The shoulders 
and hip bones are also affected. 
Crippled with Rheumatism 
AFTER OPERATION 
Pains all gone. Patient in excellent health. 
Nerves in Bad Shape—Troubled with Prostate Gland 
I am sixty-one years old; my general health is good, 
but my nerves are in a very bad condition. I have 
sciatica and lumbago, not particularly bad, but it annoys 
me all the time. I also have prostate trouble which is 
very troublesome at times. This trouble does not come 
from any venereal disease, as I have never had any 
thing of the kind. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery and a happy man 
Observed a Mental and Physical Decline 
I have good health, am fifty years of age, but can 
observe a decline physically and mentally. Not so apt 
as formerly. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Operation stopped the mental and physical decline. 38 
Shadows and Sunshine 
About seven years ago my trouble commenced. My 
symptoms were distress, sometimes pain in the region 
of the epigastrium, part of the time after meals, but 
more often and more intense when my stomach was 
empty. During this distress I had dull headaches, some- 
times frontal, sometimes at the base of my brain, then 
dullness; could not concentrate; loss of memory and in- 
efficiency. I have been treated successfully for thyroid, 
pancreas, bile, liver, kidneys, and I do not know what 
all without any permanent results. My hearing is af- 
fected and my glasses do not seem to wor': right part 
of the time. I keep up and about by strength of will, 
but when distress comes I am no good. 
Kept Going Only by Will Power 
Very beautiful recovery. A well pleased patient. 
AFTER OPERATION 
An Almost Hopeless Case 
I am now sixty-three years old and a victim of Par- 
alysis Agitans. T can barely walk and can hardly write, 
but keep a-going. The disease has been coming over 
me, a sort of creeping paralysis, for about five years. 
A little over a year ago I received an awful backset 
in the form of a bad abdominal rupture and have to 
wear a painful truss. I am so weak that I don’t dare 
be operated upon for the hernia, which is semi-scrotal. 
I do not shake very much but suffer from excruciating 
weakness. The hernia is worst of all. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Three months after Brinkley operation had hernia 
repaired and is much stronger and enjoys life. Shadows and Sunshine 
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I was born with one testicle and one un-descended. 
Some years ago this testicle became chronically inflamed 
and had to be removed. At that time the doctors 
tried to put down the other one but they found it un- 
developed and had to remove it also. At the present 
time I am almost all in, very pale and without any 
ambition. 
Had No Ambition 
AFTER OPERATION 
Placed him in normal condition and he is now happy. 
A Deplorable Condition 
First of all I will tell you just what is depriving me 
from having children. About eighteen months ago I 
underwent an operation consisting of the removal of 
two tubercular tumors and both fallopian tubes and 
part of one ovary. They also found the uterus mis- 
placed. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Transplantation of ovaries produced the desired 
health. 
He Made a Shrewd Guess 
For the last year or two I have not had my accus- 
tomed vigor, though I take exercise regularly, espe- 
cially walking. It has occurred to me that the lack 
of normal sexual functioning may account fully or in 
part for my condition. 
AFTER OPERATION 
It did, and he is now normal. 40 
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A Very Unusual Case 
I was born apparently without testicles. I grew up 
thinking I would never have them. At the age of nine 
my right side bulged out and I went to see a doctor 
and he told me that I had a hernia. I went on like 
this and never wore a truss and it bothered me very 
little. Then the other side bulged out and this side 
bothered me more. I was about twenty years old when 
I began to wear a truss. At the age of twenty-two 
I was married and after being married two years I 
discovered that when I took off the truss there was a 
testicle on my right side, hanging into the scrotum. 
I went to see a doctor and he told me that it was a 
case of un-descended testicles and that an operation 
would bring out both of them. I had the operation 
and my right testicle is in the scrotum and the left 
did not descend. My seminal fluid was examined and it 
does not contain spermatazoa. 
Contained spermatazoa after Brinkley Operation. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Says He Always Was Old 
I have been old as far back as I can remember; tire 
easily; just want to lay around all the time. Nothing 
satisfies me; feel “all in” most of the time. The doctors 
tell me they don’t see anything the matter. Give me 
some medicine but it don’t seem to help. It’s just a 
tired, dull, lazy feeling all of the time. 
“I have started back to work, feeling stronger than 
in years.” 
Continued so. 
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I am fifty-three, still very regular in my menstrual 
periods, but am very nervous, despondent and lack 
‘‘pep.” I can’t believe it is age alone that makes me 
feel as I do at times. I haven’t control of my head; 
at times it shakes and twists. At times I am afraid of 
everybody, though I have no reason to be. 
Nervous and Despondent 
AFTER OPERATION 
This has left her and she is very grateful. 
Chronic Dysentery 
My main illness is chronic dysentery which I con- 
tracted while in the trenches in France, and nervous 
trouble. I feel like an old man with no vitality and no 
interest in life whatever. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery. 
Had Chronic Knee Trouble 
I am very desirous of undergoing the operation owing 
to the fact that I have for twenty years had a chronic 
knee trouble which does not improve and from reports 
of this operation it would no doubt give added vitality 
sufficient to assure great improvement if not an abso- 
lute cure. Have been physically incapacitated for eigh- 
teen months owing to both knees being inflamed. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Satisfied this patient and he is now a booster 42 
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I am sixty-two years old; have, until quite recently, 
led an active life. Have hernia and been constipated 
more or less most of my life. Suffered what the doctor 
called nervous breakdown about five years ago. I am 
now down and out. My feet bother me considerable. 
Lots of albumen in my urine, high blood pressure and 
fear prostate gland enlargement. Have tired, uneasy 
feeling in my testicles; don’t sleep well; am impotent. 
My memory is poor and my business has gone down 
and am trying to dispose of it. 
Had Nervous Breakdown 
AFTER OPERATION 
“Am getting along fine. My scrotum is all healed and 
the incision for hernia is healing nicely. My appear- 
ance is good and everyone remarks about how well 
I am looking.” 
About three years ago during the flu my husband 
began to act queer and do odd things that he never 
did before. I think the flu caused him to be like he is 
as it was then I first noticed him to act queer. Then 
he has had a lot of sickness and deaths in his family 
and has had lots of trouble. He seems to want to be 
on the go all the time and if I let him out of my sight 
he runs off and we have to hunt him. He will go 
around and pick up nails, tinfoil and such articles. He 
at one time taught school and also was a salesman. 
When he lies down to sleep he jerks like it might be 
nervousness. 
Husband Had Been Acting Queerly 
AFTER OPERATION 
Now a normal man. Shadows and Sunshine 
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Noted Decline in Sexual Powers 
My health has been poor for the past four years, but 
so far have not had an operation. I have been treated 
for colon trouble. At times I have a soreness in my 
left side. The last two years it has been very hard 
to control my urine. There has also been a decline in 
my sexual powers. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Fine results. 
Was Impotent—Had High Blood Pressure 
I have for the past few years had a blood pressure that 
has at times crawled up to 220. At the present time 
will run about 170 to 185. I am also impotent, though 
I still have the desire. The erections are weak and 
ejaculations premature. There is a slight burning or 
pain during ejaculation. I am sixty-one but will pass 
for forty-five to fifty. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery. 
Suffered from Effects of Slight Paralytic Stroke 
I am sixty-seven years of age. Last October I think 
I had a slight paralytic stroke. The effect has in part 
gone, though I am still quite dizzy and have trouble 
getting around. My nerves of equilibrium and taste 
may have been disturbed, as my taste is not normal. T 
am also very deaf. 
AFTER OPERATION 
All symptoms disappeared. Pleased patient. 44 
Shadows and Sunshine 
I am forty-six years of age and have menstruated 
regularly up to the present time. Had one ovary re- 
moved when I was about twenty-six. My hair has 
turned almost white and my eyesight is very poor. I 
am very nervous and weak and have an eruption on 
my shoulders, back and arms. I went to a good doctor 
last July and he took a blood test, spinal test, gold test 
and urinary test and claims that they were all negative. 
He also claims that I have not organic or abdominal 
trouble. He claims that it is my nerves, or nerve ex- 
haustion, and high blood pressure which runs to 180 
nearly every day. I am also impotent and suffer a great 
deal with my head. It is not just like headache. It is 
a dull soreness and pain and sort of tight or numb 
sensation, especially at the base of the brain. 
Nervous Exhaustion and High Blood Pressure 
AFTER OPERATION 
Fine recovery and a well satisfied patient. 
Wife and Husband Needed Treatment 
My wife and I are both not well. She has poor cir- 
culation and kidney trouble and her head is not very 
clear. I have complicated catarrh, ear noises, and indi- 
gestion, and a run-down system. 
AFTER OPERATION 
We surely both feel fine. Mrs. ’s swollen limbs 
are gone and her kidneys don’t hurt. She can eat and 
sleep well, has put on sixteen pounds of flesh and I 
have gained eighteen pounds. My head and ear noises 
are disappearing and I hear better. The world seems 
all glorious; before it was all hell. Shadows and Sunshine 
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In Weakened Condition Through Night Losses 
I am forty-three years old, married and have two 
healthy children. The one thing that is the matter with 
me is sexual weakness. By that I mean involuntary 
losses at night and prematureness during intercourse. 
My general health is good but the night losses have 
kept me in a weakened condition. These losses occur 
once a week; in the interval I gain rapidly in strength, 
only to lose it. This is having a disastrous effect on 
my nervous system. 
AFTER OPERATION 
The Brinkley Operation stopped the loss of vital 
fluid. 
Another Case of High Blood Pressure 
My husband is suffering from high blood pressure 
and has been for the past sixteen months; it has been 
as high as 255. He had to give up work entirely. His 
pressure is now down to 182, but the trouble is to keep 
it at that point. His age is fifty-six. He has no com- 
plications besides that, except that his heart is affected 
by the pressure. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“Mr. —— has been home for quite a little while and 
has asked me to wrte to you and let you know how he 
is progressing. I am glad to tell you that he is won- 
derfully improved and we notice a great change in 
him, so we are very hopeful for the future and the 
outlook is very much brighter than at one time we 
thought possible.” (Their hopes realized; blood pres- 
sure remained normal.) 46 
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I am forty-eight years of age. Have passed through 
the change of life and it is about two years since my 
last menstruation. I find myself without much en- 
durance and no “pep.” I have never been very strong 
or robust. I am somewhat troubled with rheumatism, 
especially in the joints of my fingers, and with indiges- 
tion. 
Had Passed the Change of Life 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete relief and a big booster for the Brinkley 
Operation. 
Suffered from Throat, Stomach and Kidney Troubles 
I hope to learn if I can recover from some of my 
troubles. One is a bad case of throat trouble. Then I 
am suffering from stomach, kidney and liver trouble and 
cramping in limbs and feet. I am constipated and have 
hemorrhoids. 
AFTER OPERATION 
This man now feels fine and is happy. 
Better Late than Never 
I think I have been weak sexually for fifteen years or 
more. Now I get real nervous at times, with pains 
usually in wrists and hands and tingling in fingers. 
Hands and feet get cold easily. Pulse runs a little 
high by spells. I am a bachelor, fifty-four years old. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Now enjoys his work and is a man. Shadows and Sunshine 
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Was Anxious to Become Mother 
I am writing you to see if you can do anything for 
for me, though my case is different. I am not sterile, 
as I have had two unfortunate miscarriages, and I am 
anxious to become a mother. I would try anything. 
I have not menstruated for a little more than one year. 
I am nearly forty years of age, so I expect it is the 
change taking place. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“I am getting, along splendid. I will always tell any- 
one ‘You are the most wonderful surgeon in the world,’ 
for I had two very serious operations and never had 
a pain or an ache from the day you operated on me 
to this day. When I tell my friends that they really 
can’t believe it possible.” 
High Blood Pressure—Stroke of Paralysis 
Seven years ago my husband had high blood pressure 
which yielded to treatment in a couple of years; he was 
free from it for some years. When he had it taken 
a year ago it was 160. He was fifty-one years old at 
that time. He became very nervous during the winter 
and worried over everything. In May he had some diffi- 
culty in talking after having argued a case and was 
very ill, coming home. In July he had a slight stroke 
of throat paralysis. His pressure dropped after that; 
it was 250, and is now down to about 166, except under 
exciting conditions. His mental attitude is one of ex- 
treme depression. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Blood pressure came down to 156. He practices his 
profession daily. 48 
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Afflicted with Shaking Palsy 
My husband is afflicted with shaking palsy; has been 
for six years and always growing worse. Now it is 
with difficulty that he can help himself at all; both 
sides hands and arms in continual motion unless dead 
asleep. While his legs don’t shake they seem to be par- 
tially paralyzed. Some days he is unable to even feed 
himself. He suffers much from pain in his back, back 
of neck and shoulders, is unable to straighten up. In 
the past two weeks he has seemed more depressed and 
shaky, causing him to be tired and worn out all the 
time. He is unable to even take an auto ride. If he 
walks more than a few feet at a time he is exhausted. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Much stronger and enjoys long auto rides. 
Had Lost All “Pep” and Courage 
I am a man fifty-three years of age; always enjoyed 
good health until eight years ago when I had what was 
termed a nervous breakdown; gave up my work and 
came west. Four years ago I developed what appar- 
ently is locomotor ataxia, although I have never had 
syphilis. I have been treated by two noted specialists, 
having taken thirty-five or forty treatments of Neo 
Salvarsan and was to the point where I felt that one or 
two more would have finished me. I can get around 
very well with the use of a cane out of doors; can walk 
very well but am wabbly, as my ankles do not hold 
firm at all times. But I have lost all “pep” and have 
not sufficient courage to undertake any business venture. 
Ankles now strong and feeling fine. 
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Had Locomotor Ataxia—Tried Everything 
I am forty-seven years old. About twenty years ago 
I became sick and I have had the best doctor’s care. 
In 1913 I had an attack of locomotor ataxia, tabes 
dorsales, and have been crippled. Have tried every- 
thing. My last blood and spinal fluid showed negative, 
but I still have severe pains in my legs. Also trou- 
bled with a lot of gas in my stomach. 
AFTER OPERATION 
A pleased patient. 
Had Been Treated for Years Without Success 
Am forty-two years of age. Since childhood have 
never enjoyed real health; always a weakling; treated 
by scores of local physicians for stomach, bladder and 
prostate gland and without success. Utterly lack vi- 
tality. 
Fine results and a happy patient. 
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I am a patient here at G in the hospital for 
Epileptics. I came here a year ago last month. So far 
I have not been helped in the least. I have had epilepsy 
about eight years. It came on me shortly after an at- 
tack of mumps which went “down” on me. My attacks 
come about once a month and are severe. 
Had Severe Attacks of Epilepsy 
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Was Growing Weaker and Losing Sexual Power 
Below is history of my case: Born 1875; typhoid 
fever at age of sixteen; slight congestion on lungs age 
twenty; advised to go to California; weigh 130 to 140 
pounds, height 5 feet 9 inches ; married at age twenty- 
nine. May, 1914, slight dizzy attack; June, 1914, dizzy 
attack and vomiting; July, similar attack; much worse. 
Since which time right ear has rung constantly and 
has gradually become deaf. Last dizzy attack in Jan- 
uary, 1915, but have never felt strong, having to rest 
frequently for one or two weeks. Dizzy and vomiting 
again October, 1921; flu attack February, 1922, since 
which date have had number of slight dizzy spells but 
no vomiting, due to care in diet. T feel myself grow- 
ing weaker, have lost much sexual power, dislike meet- 
ing people, cannot stand any strain or shock, spots in 
front of eyes almost constantly. No syphilis; have 
always lived clean. I sleep very poorly. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Entirely restored to normal state of health. 
Life Was Not Worth Living 
I am thirty-three years of age; have had no opera- 
tions. I have been subject to nervous breakdowns ever 
since I was about the age of twenty; every few years 
I would have a spell of it, last for about six months 
or longer and then I would get better. I have had 
about five such spells. I would be unable to work, 
didn’t care to live, would have a great deal of headache 
and wouldn’t sleep much. 
No more spells and feeling fine. 
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Was Steadily Losing Strength and Mental Ability 
I am twenty-six years of age, never having a sick 
day until August, 1916, when I was stricken with in- 
fantile paralysis. Practically the whole lower part of 
my body was afflicted, the right thigh and left leg re- 
ceiving the worst of it. After a period of two years, 
due to treatment, I regained my entire strength. During 
the spring of 1921 I got the flu, then a relapse and 
tonsilitis. This apparently swept me off my feet and 
I was obliged to leave my work and go south. After 
a ten-day motor trip I began to lose urinary and pros- 
tatic control, which today is more than ever. This con- 
dition has never improved, regardless what steps I have 
taken. I have lost steadily in strength and mental abil- 
ity. As time goes on I seem to grow weaker, showing 
signs of faintness, dizziness, stomach trouble, loss of 
appetite and considerable muscular quivering and pains. 
All this trouble occurs mostly after considerable urinary 
and prostatic flow. I have never had any venereal dis- 
ease, moreover, never any sexual intercourse. 
Completely cured and restored to wonderful health. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Retention of Urine Very Painful 
At about sixteen years of age had gonorrhea. Ignor- 
ance and improper treatment resulted in swollen tes- 
ticles, first one and then the other. Later potency ap- 
parently good as ever. Married at twenty; no chil- 
dren. For last five years have noticed some trouble 
in retaining urine. Was informed that it was due to 
prostatic trouble. Retention sometimes very painful. 
Long retention makes it hard to start the flow. 
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Organs Getting Defective 
I am fifty-eight years old and in very good physical 
condition, but my memory, sight and hearing are grow- 
ing defective as are my sexual organs. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“Regarding my condition I am pleased to state that 
I have been greatly benefitted. My mind is as active 
as it was in my younger days. Mental fatigue, with 
which I am badly afflicted, has entirely disappeared. 
Mental concentration has been restored. My thoughts 
flow freely and with old time continuity. Physicallv 
I am in excellent condition and receive pleasure from 
work that hitherto was irksome and often repellant. 
Small incidents that tended to make me irritable or 
enraged no longer affect me and my attitude is now one 
of controlled calm. In only pray these benign condi- 
tions may continue to prevail.” (They do three year-! 
later.) 
Had No Children—Married Five Years 
We have been married almost five years and have no 
children though we greatly desire them. My husband 
has been found normal by microscopic examination. At 
first the doctor said he could find no reason for me not 
bearing children. I had an operation for painful mens- 
truation, hoping it would also help the sterile condition. 
Later the doctor said I had cystic ovaries and tipped 
uterus. I am twenty-seven years old, my menstrual 
periods are regualr and I am strong and in excellent 
health. 
Fine baby boy in this home. 
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Had Paralysis Agitans with Its Attendant Evils 
I am sending history of my husband’s case, diagnosed 
as paralysis agitans. He is fifty-seven years of age, 
blood pressure 155. Wasserman blood test negative. 
About four years ago very bad constipation began which 
has continued, having to use laxatives or suppositories 
all the time. His first symptom of disease was at this 
time, beginning with pain in left arm and shoulder 
when using them. In a few months an occasional 
tremor of hand appeared, left leg and foot slowed up. 
Morton’s toe developed in left foot, and kept him from 
exercising. Two years ago we discovered he had some 
badly abscessed teeth. After the extraction of these 
he improved wonderfully for several months, then be- 
gan going down again. X-ray shows no more abscessed 
teeth at present. His appetite is good, sleeps quite well, 
but the disease is now affecting right arm and leg. He 
has great difficulty in walking even a block or about the 
house and always feels as if someone was holding him 
by the shoulders and pushing back. 
Very much improved. 
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I have indigestion and constipation with resulting 
hemorrhoids. I am seventy years old. For many 
years I have seemed to have a small hydrocele in the 
right testicle. It does not appear to trouble me much. 
Wear a suspensory bandage. I have always been quick 
of emission, almost premature, and of late appear weak 
and erections are difficult and infrequent. I am some- 
what troubled with insomnia. 
Sex Glands Did Not Function 
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Wanted to Build Up in Order to Make Good 
My object in wanting to take the operation is to 
build myself up, to make good on the position I am 
now working. The work is not heavy but the worry 
and responsibility make life not worth living if one is 
not strong. Most of my troubles I believe are caused 
by a weak or enlarged prostate. 
Built up his strength and is much pleased. 
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Felt Uncomfortable in Company 
One of my testicles became soft and flabby and very 
small years ago. A feeling of weakness there and in 
the left side, both upper and lower, and nervous strain 
in company. Have good health and weight. Am past 
sixty and unmarried. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Feels fine and enjoying life. 
Was Losing Power of Endurance 
My age is forty-two, height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 
124 pounds. Have had stomach trouble and indiges- 
tion; kidneys bother slightly; some trouble with eyes. 
Do not have the endurance and stamina I formerly 
had. 
Endurance and stamina restored. 
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Spinal Column Injured in Fall 
I am sixty-seven years old. Do not have a trace of 
venereal disease. When I was about twelve I fell on 
the ice and injured my spinal column and it has re- 
mained in its present abrupt turn forward, hindering 
easy evacuation of bowels. At age of fifteen I had 
the misfortune to have my privates injured riding. I 
am greatly annoyed by flatulence. My development 
from childhood to manhood was backward, puberty not 
arriving until I was past seventeen. My left testicle 
has never developed above the size of a person of 
twelve years and both of them pain me at times seem- 
ingly without cause. The left one is of a watery nature. 
I had an accident over twenty years ago that almost 
blinded my left eye, injuring it so that I kept it squinted 
shut when trying to see anything. Last August my 
right eye began to bother me. There appeared to be 
swarms of flies preceding my every effort to see plainly. 
The “flies” disappeared after a time but my vision has 
grown steadily worse until now I can see nothing but 
strong light. The left eye has grown stronger and I 
am able to read with the aid of a strong reading glass. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Very much improved. 
I am twenty-four years of age, a young age at which 
to feel like an old man, but there are times when I feel 
like sixty-four. My face is pale and sickly looking, 
tho a physician tells me I am not anaemic. I haven’t 
the vigor and vitality to put my plans into effect. I am 
already beginning to lose interest in life. 
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Another Victim of Paralysis Agitans 
Three years ago my husband underwent a severe 
bladder operation at Mayo’s. The shock affected his 
nerves and for some time now he has had trouble with 
his right arm and leg, said trouble being diagnosed as 
paralysis agitans. He is lame in his right leg, his foot 
dragging some when he walks. His right arm is be- 
coming stiff and numb and has that peculiar agitation 
common to the disease. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“I am greatly improved. I can now write about as 
well as I ever did. The lameness and stiffness in my 
right leg is almost gone. My eyesight is stronger, my 
memory is better, I have a good appetite. I rest well 
at night—in act sleep better and sounder than I have 
in years, and my nerves are quieting down.” 
Had Only One Testicle 
Had one testicle because of T. B., as they said it was 
effecting the other. Had considerable swelling in the 
other but inflammation finally left, leaving the epidermis 
hard. Had a kidney removed about five years ago. 
Once in a great while I have night emissions and the 
effect is noticeable. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Removed the other testicle and gave him two new 
ones. He is now the picture of health. 
“I am feeling pretty good now and have discontinued 
the treatment as I seem to be O. K. I am working 
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Had Curvature of Spine 
I have suffered venereal disease, am undersized and 
deformed, having a curvature of the spine. When I 
rest against something and press against my deformed 
part I feel a sense of relief and breathe better. I am 
impotent; cannot do any work unless I force myself 
to it; feel all unnerved. Am forty-six years of age. 
Fixed him in fair shape. 
AFTER OPERATION 
A Nervous Wreck—Lacks Vitality 
I am a man forty-two years of age, of temperate 
habits. In addition to being nearly a nervous wreck, 
I have no vitality, become fatigued in an hour or two 
and have the external appearance of a man ten years 
older than I am. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Vitality restored and no longer easily fatigued. 
Felt That He Was Slipping Back 
I am fifty-two years old. Have good appetite, sleep 
well, and have fairly good digestion, but last few years 
have noticed a decided “slowing up.” Have been semi- 
impotent for about four years. Some rheumatism and 
stiffening of the muscles. Altogether I feel that I don’t 
want to slide back in the years to come as I have the 
last five years. 
AFTER OPERATION 
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Feared Going Insane 
I have neuritis universal, especially in my arms, 
causing much difficulty in sleeping, also hyperacidity of 
the stomach with dyspepsia and colic, often at night. 
Am sixty years of age and have been obliged to leave 
a large practice on account of my health. Was obliged 
to have castration about twenty-three years ago. A fall, 
injuring the testicles and prostate gland, started the 
trouble. After years of suffering I begged a doctor 
friend to perform the operation for fear of going in- 
sane. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“Can work in the garden and not experience a feeling 
that I am going to collapse. Was even well enough to 
usher in a big down town church Sunday. People say, 
‘You look a whole lot better than you did,’ which is 
true.” 
Had Paralysis Agitans 
I am fifty-four years of age, a traveling man by occu- 
pation and have never had any shocks or sustained any 
periods of strain in my life. I have had paralysis 
agitans for two years, starting first in a mild way in 
my right hand, then migrating to my right foot about 
a year later. During the past year I have had it rather 
severely in both hands and the right foot. Right foot 
and ankle are slightly swollen and my right hand is also 
puffed up. My heart, lungs and kidneys are in good 
condition and my physician says that I apparently am in 
as good physical condition as usual. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Gradually improving and is much pleased with re- 
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I am a bachelor forty years of age. Have abused 
myself in the past but have never had intercourse. 
Show trace of albumen and enjoy fairly good health, 
altho at times my kidneys bother me. 
What a Lot He Missed 
AFTER OPERATION 
Secured desired results. 
Had Arterio-Sclerosis and High Blood Pressure 
I am fifty-two years of age and have been retired 
from active service for six years on account of general 
arterio-sclerosis. In connection with this I have an 
hypertrophied left ventricle, slight kidney infection and, 
of course, high blood pressure. With all I can do the 
latter stays around 190; it is 200 today. My heart is 
particularly sensitive to shocks and I have a marked 
tendency to faint at the sight of blood. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Complete recovery. Here was a life saved from an 
early grave. 
Weak Heart and Hardening of the Arteries 
For the past two years my condition has been as fol- 
lows : I lack ambition, feel older than my years, con- 
stant ringing in my ears, weak heart, hardening of the 
arteries, eyesight failing, circulation poor. I am fifty- 
six years of age. 
Feeling fine and a booster for the Brinkley Oper- 
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A Most Distressing Condition 
About twelve years ago I practiced self-abuse. When 
I am in the presence of the opposite sex I have no con- 
trol of my discharge. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Stopped this trouble. 
Had Poor Circulation and Sallow Skin 
I have pain, soreness and stiffness in the back of my 
neck. For many months I have had head noises and a 
roaring in my ears. I weigh about 150 pounds, but 
my circulation is poor and I think my blood is thin, 
because my skin is sallow and muddy looking. I tire 
easily. Sometimes I have a sore, bruised feeling at the 
lower end of my spine and at the same time my heels 
always feel sore and bruised. I am thirty-four years 
of age. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Great improvement in this case. 
Had Paralysis and Hardening of Arteries 
My husband had a stroke of paralysis on April 1st, 
that left his left side helpless. All the doctors say 
there is no help for him as it is caused by hardening 
of the arteries, with high blood pressure of 265. 
AFTER OPERATION 
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Pituitary Gland Not Functioning Properly 
My case is diagnosed as pituitary insufficiency, but an 
X-ray of my skull shows the pituitary cavity as only 
slightly below normal. The symptoms of my case are 
infantile genital organs and absence of beard. Also 
low blood pressure. My testicles are soft, the left one 
being painful at times. Otherwise I am in good health, 
never being laid up with any disease. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Beard grew on face and glands now function. 
Troubled When Walking 
I have locomotor ataxia. To my knowledge have 
never had syphilis or practiced excessive sexual rela- 
tions. From the age of sixteen to twenty-one I did 
practice self-abuse, through ignorance. I have no pains 
and never did. The only time it troubles me is when 
I walk. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Much improvement. 
Affected by Bronchitis and Stomach Trouble 
I have passed by seventy-sixth year, have bronchitis 
and stomach trouble and am much reduced in flesh. 
Think I also have hardening of the arteries. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Fixed him up and he is now happy and expects to 
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Began Failing After Attack of Fever 
I am sixty-three years of age, quite strong and healthy. 
Twelve years ago had a bad attack of fever. Soon after 
I noticed I began to fail in manhood. It continued 
gradually until I am nearly down and out in that re- 
spect. Eyesight and hearing slightly impaired. Some 
aches and pains dart from place to place. 
“I am feeling fine, becoming normal fast. Recom- 
mending you to all my friends.” 
AFTER OPERATION 
Seemed Like He Was All Run Down 
I am fifty-five years old, have stomach and heart 
trouble, bad eyes and am out of order like an old clock. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Repaired him. 
I am sixty-seven years old and think I have high 
blood pressure, the symptoms being confusion of mind 
and unsteadiness of thought. When I lie down and 
close my eyes everything seems to be whirling ’round 
and ’round, and I go floating through space with nothing 
fixed or definite. I have to get up several times during 
the night to urinate. I do not think I have diabetes, 
but that it may be caused by enlarged prostate. 
Seemed to be Floating Through Space 
He is now normal. 
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Heart Skips Beat 
I am in fairly good health; am bothered with a dull- 
ness in hearing; can hear conversation directed to me, 
but in audience with ordinary speaker cannot follow 
him. Heart not always regular. At night when first 
lie down, will skip beats. I have internal piles, not 
noticeable only at time of evacuation, when they some- 
tifes come down. Urinate frequently at night. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Greatly benefitted and highly pleased with results. 
Sexual Weakness—Tried Numerous Remedies 
I have been suffering for the past fifteen years with 
sexual weakness and partial impotency and have tried 
about every remedy the medical profession has to offer 
but without any degree of success. I feel all tired out 
most of the time and simply “all in,” as the expression 
goes. There is continuous irritation in the region of the 
testicles and I suffer terribly with the “blues” and 
mental depression. 
AFTER OPERATION 
All symptoms removed and he is normal 
Suffered with Enlarged Prostate 
I have an enlarged prostate and have suffered a long 
time. Sometimes it almost shuts off the neck of my 
bladder and it is very hard to keep at work in this 
condition. 
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Had Locomotor Ataxia—No Results from Remedies 
I am suffering from locomotor ataxia; have been 
about ten years. I have tried all kinds of remedies, but 
so far, no results. I am still able to do office work 
and can walk about two miles each day. After that 
I get tired out and have to rest. I have shooting pains 
principally in the legs, also stiffness. Bladder and 
bowels fairly weak, sexual organs weak, heart fairly 
strong. Am forty-eight years of age. 
Obtained results from the Brinkley Operation and 
is well pleased. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Sex Powers Nearly Gone 
My sex powers are very low, nearly gone, and the 
accompanying weaknesses have a tendency to manifest. 
My health is first class, naturally active. This weak- 
ness is the only one I seem to have. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“Now I will tell you in brief how things are going, 
so far as general health is concerned. I do not know 
how I could feel much finer, and have felt so ever 
since my return home. One thing I did not tell you 
that I will now, is this: I am certain I had the early 
stages of locomotor ataxia. That is All Gone. 
No Vitality in Sex Organs 
I am forty-three years of age. About a year ago I 
underwent an operation for varicocele. Since the opera- 
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is concerned. The doctor claimed that by massaging 
the prostate the vitality would be restored. He has 
been doing so for nearly a year but nothing has come 
of it. I have had pain in one of the testicles and noth- 
ing gives me relief. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Brinkley Operation put in him shape. 
Anaemia—Lacks Ability to Concentrate 
I am fifty-five years of age; am anaemic; 5 feet 9 
inches tall and weigh only 122 pounds. Every time I 
gain a little strength I have an emission and down I 
go again. Have had eczema more or less severely since 
1908. In summer the lesions reduce to one, in winter 
a dozen or more on ankles, legs and hands. I cannot 
concentrate on anything; haven’t done any work for 
over three months. Can’t regain any efficiency. Night 
losses keep me in a weakened condition. Have pain in 
right kidney, often both; and backache nights. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Now he is fine and a very happy man. 
Felt His Case Was Hopeless 
I am sixty-five years of age and as far as I know 
I am in perfect health. Don’t remember of ever being 
sick a day in my life, am as fond of amusements and 
sports as I was twenty-five years ago. Yet I am totally 
impotent. I have tried several doctors and one thought 
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flowing just right and he sewed several veins toge- 
ther. I know he did not do me any good. I feel 
as if my case was hopeless on account of my age. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Excellent results, an ideal case for the BrTnkley 
Operation. 
Seemed Unable to Get Back to Normal Condition 
My aim not been mainly sexual improvement, rather 
improving the nervous system, digestion, etc., and re- 
gaining the original vitality if possible. I am twenty- 
eight years old and single. Had abundance of vitality 
till five or six years ago when the change came suddenly 
through acute gastritis which left me debilitated. I 
have been improving, but do not seem able to get back 
to normal condition, being bothered with poor digestion, 
nerves and lack of ambition. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Back to normal and very happy. 
Suffered for Nearly a Year 
Had the very best of health until after I was past 
sixty-three, excepting for appendicitis and hernia, and 
had good health after being operated upon until taken 
with flu and double pneumonia which nearly got me. 
Had pneumonia three times; have not been much good 
since but was feeling quite well until a year and a half 
ago was taken with sciatica and neuritis. Suffered 
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quite badly most of the time I do not suffer so much 
now, but cannot stand to do much of any work. 
AFTER OPERATION 
Pains all gone, feeling fine. 
Had Epilepsy for Twelve Years 
I am forty-four years of age, and have had epilepsy 
about twelve years. I was sent here twenty years ago 
to die with pulmonary tuberculosis, with many profuse 
hemorrhages, but after a long struggle managed to get 
entirely over that, just about in time for this present 
trouble to start in on me. I usually feel worn out and 
I am not mentally alert as I ought to be; memory is 
no longer keen and it is hard to get things accomplished. 
Much of the time it seems all I can do to drag my- 
self around. The epileptic seizures are infrequent but 
I have a bad one once in a while. 
AFTEK OPERATION 
Now happy and well. 
Doctors Were Puzzled 
My husband’s health began to fail about a year ago. 
At first the doctors called it Bright’s disease, then 
dropsy. Have had a very serious attack of this in April; 
improved some. Then late in the summer his limbs 
and feet were much swollen, abdomen filled with fluid, 
had to be tapped at times. Improvement began in Feb- 
ruary and continued until about the last of June, then 
not so well. Seems to be something similar to indiges- 
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of arteries in neck, extreme weakness of stomach and 
some bloating. 
He is home and has very good health. 
AFTER OPERATION 
I am seventy-three years of age, blood pressure nor- 
mal. During my time have had two long spells of 
typhoid fever and a bad spell of pneumonia. Never 
had any venereal disease. Have kept myself aloft from 
extravagance in sexual matters. Have been somewhat 
sexually weak. From some cause was badly afflicted 
with prostate trouble and in 1914 underwent an opera- 
tion. Have recovered and perform sexual act about 
as well as ever, only penis and testicles are not as large 
as earlier in life. Of late have only occasional erections. 
Diseased Gonad Glands 
Now well and happy. 
AFTER OPERATION 
He Was All Run Down 
I am all run down like many men who did not take 
care of themselves in their younger days. I am now 
fifty-one years old and am lazy and drowzy all the time; 
don’t seem to have any “pep” to go out like I used to. 
I have taken all kinds of dope to restore my vigor but 
I have found nothing that did me any good. 
AFTER OPERATION 
“I am feeling better than I have for ten years and if 
I keep on improving in the future like I have in the 
past I will be like a new man.” 
Improvement did continue. HOW RESULTS ARE OBTAINED BY 
DR. BRINKLEY 
I am sure that you have been impressed by the 
number of cases presented herein as well as the 
peculiar symptoms and conditions as expressed 
by the patients. It would seem that practically 
every disease that man is heir to is tabulated in 
this monograph. 
You, no doubt, have been struck by the brill- 
iant results obtained in some of the seemingly 
hopeless cases. Some of these cases were in a 
much worse condition than the patient’s recita- 
tion shows and in others the symptoms are ex- 
aggerated by the patient’s mental condition. I 
fear that the reader has come to the conclusion 
that these results were obtained by goat glands 
alone. This is very much in error. Each one 
of these cases presented themselves to this hos- 
pital for a painstaking and careful examination 
and we determined to our own satisfaction what 
the true cause of their trouble was. Some cases 
required only a gland transplantation or the 
Brinkley Operation while others required re- 
constructive surgery. Many men were suffering 
from hydroceles, varicoceles, undescended tes- 
ticles, occluded vas, sclerosis of the testicles, tu- 
mors, chronic appendix, infected gall bladder, 
diseased tonsils, piles, strictures, tight fore-skins, 
constricted urinary tract, stones in the bladder, 
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stones in the kidney and also stones in the gall 
bladder, ruptures, defective eyes, diseased nasal 
cavities, chronic diseases of the numerous glands 
of the body, chronic diseases of the stomach and 
bowels, diseased bone, all of which were removed 
so that the patient had a clean, healthy body, 
and in addition, healthy, fresh, pure glands were 
transplanted from the goats to aid the patient 
in making a recovery and regaining health and 
vitality. 
Too much importance cannot be attached to 
the value of a careful and searching laboratory 
examination of each patient coming here for op- 
eration. It would be foolish on my part as a 
surgeon, who is supposed to be skilled in the 
diagnosis of disease or surgical technique, to 
promiscuously accept patients regardless of their 
condition, lay them on the operating table, insert 
goat glands and expect them to get well by this 
means alone. Goat glands will not set broken 
bones nor will they fill decayed teeth any more 
than they will remove a diseased, pus-containing 
appendix or stones from a gall bladder, but the 
skilled surgeon removes these diseased conditions 
and then transplants whatever glands that may 
be indicated to rebuild and rejuvenate the al- 
ready depleted patient. 
Do not get the impression that all patients are 
subjected to major surgery any more than I 
would have you gain the impression that all pa- 
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tion forms the ideal treatment for such cases as 
have been described in this book. 
I trust that this frank explanation on my part 
will prevent anyone from obtaining a false im- 
pression as to the actual work being conducted 
at this hospital. METHOD OF OPERATING 
I have perfected a unique operation that I have 
pleased to call the “Brinkley Compound Opera- 
tion.” This consist in the transplantation of a 
new artery and a new nerve to your affected 
glands. This gives the glands a new nerve and 
blood supply and in addition suitable goat glands 
are transplanted for their rejuvenating effects on 
your own glands. The glands from very young 
animals are used because I have found that the 
same principle applies in transplanting glands 
that would apply in the grafting of one species of 
vine or tree to another. If we care to produce 
peaches from a thorn bush we do not graft a 
peach limb, but transplant a peach bud. So it is 
in gland transplanting. We place the undevel- 
oped gland from the animal to that of the patient. 
In this manner the patient’s blood is enabled to 
appropriate the young animal gland to its proper 
use and function. 
In the majority of cases the success of a gland 
operation is not dependent upon the transplanted 
gland. This gland is added to the human for 
the purpose of rejuvenating and putting to work 
the patient’s sluggish glands. However, this can- 
not hold true where the patients have lost their 
own glands. In this latter condition the rejuve- 
nation is entirely at the expense of the trans- 
planted gland. Gland operation and Brinkley 
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Compound Operations in men and women are 
performed with a local anesthetic. The patient 
is not put to sleep nor subjected to any harm or 
possible danger. Just as much precaution and 
antiseptic surgical means are observed in this 
class of surgery as would be in major work. 
The patients are asked to remain in bed four days 
following the operation, during which time they 
are waited upon day and night by graduate regis- 
tered nurses and room attendants. Indicated 
food is served in palatable form at regular hours. 
Strict room asepsis in maintained. On the fourth 
day the sutures are removed, which is performed 
without pain and the patient seldom knows when 
they come out. After this the patient is per- 
mitted to lounge around the hospital, take short 
walks, and on the seventh day permitted to re- 
turn home and resume regular occupation. 
Age of the patient does not influence results. 
I have obtained just as brilliant results in men 
past seventy-five as I have in young people under 
twenty. 
The local anesthetic used is apothesine, made 
by Parke, Davis and Company, and is recognized 
the world over as being absolutely free from toxic 
reactions. While some major surgical operations 
are performed with this anesthetic, in nervous 
people we advise the open drop method of ether. 
This hospital is not conducted like the average 
but is. one great big family, each nurse and em- 
ployee endeavoring to make the patients feel per- 
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to make them comfortable and happy. The hos- 
pital is modern throughout and the very highest 
class of individual personal service is accorded 
all patients regardless of who they are or from 
where they may come. HOME TREATMENT 
Owing to the rapid recognition of gland 
transplantation and our increased knowledge 
of glands and their functions, with the won- 
derful results obtained in many heretofore 
seemingly hopeless cases, public attention has 
been sharply drawn to this new advancement 
in medical science. Unscrupulous manufac- 
turers were quick to recognize the cash value 
of any advertising purporting to have a gland 
product that would substitute for a gland 
transplantation. The newspapers and maga- 
zines of this country are flooded with all man- 
ner of advertisements offering to cure any- 
thing from bald heads on down the list. I be- 
lieve that the majority of such advertisements 
are without merit, because it is impossible to 
put the quality and quantity of reliable gland 
products into capsules or tablets in sufficient 
amount to make a week’s treatment at any- 
thing like the price quoted for one month’s 
treatment of the various glands. In my labor- 
atories we use the glands from two goats to 
make enough emulsion to last a patient one 
month. The goats cost us, usually, $50.00, and 
in addition we send several pints or quarts 
of the very best drugs obtainable, made by 
our best manufacturing chemists, and our 
Home Treatment is priced at $100.00 for a 
month’s course. No two treatments are alike, 
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because they are not prepared until after the 
patient’s order has been received and they 
have given us a comprehensive description of 
the diseases they may have had, as well as 
what operations and previous treatments, and 
all other information that a conscientious phy- 
sician who is honestly endeavoring to cure his 
patient should have. 
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery 
and no legitimate product of national standing 
has failed to have its share of imitations. I 
believe that my home treatment is the best 
ever put out and many times is a godsend to 
people who for financial or other reasons can- 
not avail themselves of my operation; but no 
treatment that I can make or that any other 
man can make will equal the gland trans- 
plantation. Medicines that are of gland origin 
that are taken into the stomach must mix 
with the food and go through the process of 
digestion and are many times changed into 
other products before reaching circulation. 
The emulsion I make is prepared from the 
pure, fresh, healthy goat glands and is sent 
to the patient to be injected into the rectum 
before going to bed for absorption during 
sleep. The injection is made with a soft rub- 
ber catheter with a glass syringe. In this way 
the emulsion does not go through any process of 
digestion but is absorbed directly. Its admin- 
istration is simplified so that any one can use 
it in the privacy of their home without the as- 
sistance of a physician, nurse or other skilled 
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The majority of my patients are well satis- 
fied with it, but of course it cannot have a 
specific action like the living glands which 
come in contact with the blood stream. I 
recommend the home treatment as a good 
tonic for anybody—a good general tonic is the 
most I can say for it. Of course, some men 
and women claim that it has helped their im- 
potency and enlarged prostates, kidney trou- 
ble, etc. The majority of users claim that it 
will move their bowels in three to five min- 
utes after its injection. Of course this is due 
to the direct action on the intestinal glands, 
and many patients like it for chronic consti- 
pation. Some patients who suffer from high 
blood pressure report good results. One pa- 
tient who was paralyzed and had to use 
crutches claims he threw away his crutches 
and is filled with energy and “pep.” The ma- 
jority of people who come here for operation 
are nervous from various causes, many of 
them having suffered over a period of years, 
and have had all manner of treatments and 
operations performed without benefit. We 
have never offered the home treatment to peo- 
ple who had the operation because we have 
never found it necessary. The operation us- 
ually produces all the results required. There 
are many people generally run down in health 
who would derive a great deal of benefit from 
the treatment. Those of you who would like 
to try it are required to write me a complete 
history of your case and send me a draft or 
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letter and studying your case, if I am con- 
vinced that the treatment is indicated, I will 
prepare and ship to you by express, charges 
collect, otherwise I will return your money to 
you. However, it is to be strictly understood 
that no comparison can be made between the 
home treatment and the operation. The treat- 
ment has its place but is no substitute for the 
operation. In fact, if it were not for my de- 
sire to prevent many people from wasting 
their money on the valueless treatments as 
advertised and also my wish to show people 
what a worth-while treatment should consist 
of, I would not furnish it at all. My time is 
fully occupied with my correspondence, ex- 
periments and operations and the home treat- 
ment is more of an accomodation on my part 
than it is an avenue of remuneration. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN 
CANCER* 
Pregnant Animal Blood Serum Destructive to Cancer Cells; 
a Possible Cure for Cancer Has Been Found; Experiments 
Conducted and Proven by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., Milford, 
Kansas. 
I am sincere in the belief that I have dis- 
covered a cure for cancer, but in looking back 
over the hundreds of years in which a cure 
has been sought and never found, it is with 
fear and trembling that I make the above 
statement because I know that I am going 
to bring ridicule upon myself before an im- 
partial investigation has been made by my 
critics. However, when a man knows he is 
right, he should have no fear and it is this de- 
termination and belief in my work that 
prompts me to give the world my experi- 
ments and deductions in cancer research. 
My work as a general surgeon has placed me 
in contact with many cases of cancer present- 
ing themselves for surgical operation. Some 
were clinically cured by surgical intervention, 
others had their lives prolonged, lives of pain 
and suffering; while others were in such a 
progressed state that surgical measures were 
not instituted, or if so, without even tempo- 
rary benefit. My experimental progress has 
been greatly handicapped by my inability to 
secure cancer bearing mice, or other suitable 
animals for experimental work. It would 
seem that the larger institutions conducting 
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America. 
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cancer research have not the time or inclina- 
tion to associate themselves with an independ- 
ent investigator. This is probably one of the 
reasons why so little progress has been made 
in finding a cure or preventive for cancer or 
engaging more co-operative experimental 
workers. 
For a long time my attention has been di- 
rected to the relation of pregnancy to cancer 
and to my mind cancer in animals is inhibited 
by pregnancy. Miss Slye, Institute of Cancer 
Research, Columbia University, has made 
some interesting experiments with tumor- 
bearing mice. I believe I am correct in stat- 
ing that her experiments show that by trans- 
planting a cancer into the breast of a mouse, 
that the mouse would die in from six to eight 
weeks from cancer, but on the other hand, if 
bred, that the same mouse would live for six 
or eight months and the cancerous process 
would be inhibited during the breeding period. 
Of course, as I understand it, the mouse even- 
tually died of cancer but not nearly so soon 
as if she had not been subjected to frequent 
pregnancy. It has also been contended by 
several surgeons of wide observation, that 
pregnant women who are cancerous enjoy a 
certain amount of inhibition of their cancer 
while pregnant but as soon as the pregnancy 
is terminated the cancer becomes very active, 
soon terminating their lives. In fact, I believe 
that some observers teach that during preg- 
nancy, there is offered a favorable time to op- 
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Last December I had the pleasure of receiv- 
ing a letter from Dr. Percy in reply to a let- 
ter from me asking if he had any knowledge 
of investigations being made along the lines 
in which I was experimenting. He wrote me 
that he did not have any experience along 
these lines but that my inquiry was very in- 
teresting and suggestive and very kindly re- 
ferred me to Dr. Wood of the Crocker Re- 
search Laboratory, New York City. I wrote 
Dr. Wood, who replied to me that the ques- 
tions of cancer and pregnancy have been ap- 
proached from a number of points of view 
and that there was no reason to dispute Miss 
Slye’s statements in regard to the inhibition 
of cancerous growths in mice, but that his own 
experiments showed there was no change in 
the tumor growth when larger animals were 
employed and that in human beings it was 
generally accepted, that pregnancy stimulates 
cancer of the breast to such an extent that it 
is justifiable to interrupt the pregnancy be- 
fore operating on the tumor. This, of course, 
is very easily explained by the increased vas- 
cularity of the milk-bearing breast during 
pregnancy. He very kindly referred me to the 
Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital of 
St. Louis, for tumor-bearing animals, inasmuch 
as it was difficult for him to send animals 
from so distant a point as New York City. 
My inquiry to the last named place remains 
unanswered. 
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that whatever inhibition to cancerous develop- 
ment occurs in the pregnant, may be attri- 
butable to the growing foetus, the belief being 
that the foetus requires and consumes the 
greater amount of nutrition for growth and 
development and that the cancer is placed in 
a resting stage during the pregnancy. How- 
ever, it has never been satisfactorily explained 
why the cancer assumes such a virulent form 
after pregnancy is terminated, nor has it been 
satisfactorily explained why the period of 
pregnancy is deemed a favorable time for 
surgical operation on cancerous tissue. I have 
given this subject serious thought and con- 
sideration and I was never able to reconcile 
myself to the conclusion that pregnancy, so 
far as the foetus was concerned, was respon- 
sible for the seemingly observable inhibition, 
and I was unable to resist the opinion that 
during pregnancy, cancerolytic substance was 
formed, or, if you please, a cancero-inhibito 
substance. I wrote to the American Medical 
Association at 535 North Dearborn Street, 
Chicago, Illinois, asking for information on 
this subject and my letter remains unanswered. 
We have a radio in our home and last Fall 
when somebody put on a campaign to scare 
people to some surgeon—everyone who hap- 
pened to have a tumor on his body—my in- 
terest was intensely aroused, because I am a 
surgeon of no small experience and I believe 
that my opinion is as good as that of any other 
and I know that radium, escharotic paste or 
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a cure to the man or woman afflicted with a 
cancer. So the more I thought about a can- 
cerolytic substance, or if you care to call it, 
carcinomalytic substance being formed in the 
blood stream of pregnant animals, the more I 
was impressed with the correctness of my 
thinking. Now when I have an experiment to 
perform that affects the human race I believe 
that the logical way to experiment is on hu- 
mans and not animals, because in animal ex- 
perimenting I have conclusively proven to my 
own satisfaction that you cannot reproduce on 
humans the same results that you can with 
animals and that a lot of valuable findings are 
thrown in the discard, just because too many 
investigators rely upon guinea pigs and mice 
for their controls. We must ever bear in mind 
that our efforts are continually being directed 
towards the alleviation of suffering and the 
curing of disease in humans. Now please do 
not misunderstand me; I am not trying to dis- 
credit the value of animal experiments but T 
am trying to show that there is a vast differ- 
ence in the laboratory findings on animals and 
the bedside results with patients and I am not 
alone in this declaration. Practically every 
scientific man and woman in the world is 
agreed on this, so, therefore, we should have 
no dispute on this point; yet I fear that we 
are too prone to confine our experimenting to 
animals and not enough to humans. In this 
connection, of course, I am not forgetting that 
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My surgical operations on cases of cancer 
during the past few months, I believe, boast 
of as high a mortality rate as that of any one 
else. I have lost 100% of cancerous cases op- 
erated upon during the past few months. This 
means that the cases operated upon were of 
such an advanced type that in removing all of 
the cancerous tissues that could be found and 
identified, the operation proved a success but 
the patient was not able to withstand it. 
Last November a man presented himself at 
this hospital with a very advanced case of can- 
cer of the stomach, involving all of the pyloric 
portion and extending into the duodenum. 
The stricture was so great that food would 
not leave the stomach after being ingested but 
would remain there for four to six hours and 
be regurgitated. Any of you that are familiar 
with this advanced condition can readily pic- 
ture the extreme emaciation presented by this 
patient with the typical cachexia and board- 
like abdomen. His misery was further com- 
plicated by two inguinal hernias filled full of 
paraffine standing out like two baseballs on 
his contracted abdomen. 
I told him that surgical intervention was 
contra-indicated. He realized this and begged 
me to put him on the operating table under a 
general anesthetic and remove all the cancer- 
ous tissues from his body, for he felt sure that 
he would never rally from the anesthetic and 
would thus be out of his misery. I explained 
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murder and that I could not be a party to 
such an undertaking. 
His red cell count was 2,800,000 and his 
white cell count was 7,000 and his hemoglobin 
was 50%. The differential showed the usual 
blood picture of large lymphocytes and small 
lymphocytes with a preponderance of poly- 
morphonuclear leucocytes. I came to the con- 
clusion that this case afforded me a wonderful 
opportunity for trying out my idea of there 
being some cancerolytic substance in pregnant 
blood. 
One of my former patients and a warm per- 
sonal friend of ours, a lady living here in town, 
happened to be pregnant, and after explaining 
to her what I had in mind she readily con- 
sented and permitted us to take a supply of 
her blood. This was done from her median 
basilic vein. This was allowed to coagulate, 
the serum was removed from the clot and 15 
minims or one cc or one mil was given the 
patient intramuscularly. Twenty-four hours 
after receiving the first injection, a differential 
blood count was made. The hemoglobin had 
jumped to 70% and the red cells had increased 
to 3,000,000. Daily injections were given the 
patient, increasing the dose one c.c. or mil 
daily until a maximum dose of five mils was 
reached and differential blood examinations 
were made daily. After two weeks of this 
treatment his red cells were 4,800,000 and his 
hemoglobin was 90%; he was able to take 
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ach and passing into the small intestines. We 
had one difficulty with his blood examination 
and that was the day following the first in- 
jection of the pregnant serum. The coagula- 
tion time of his blood was enormously in- 
creased. It practically became instantaneous; 
that is to say, permitting a drop of blood to 
drip on a glass slide it would form a clot be- 
fore a smear could be made of it, and I believe 
that it is proper for me to say right here that 
in patients who require surgery and are barred 
because of delayed coagulation time or who are 
known to be hemophilics, the preoperative in- 
tramuscular injection of pregnant blood serum 
will hasten the coagulability time of the blood 
to such an extent that surgical operations on 
tonsils or the extraction of teeth or even oper- 
ations upon the liver or spleen may be per- 
formed with safety. It is common usage to 
employ plain animal serum to control hemor- 
ihage, and I believe that the employment of 
pregnant animal blood serum will prove of in- 
estimable value. 
In addition, at the end of the two weeks’ 
period the patient’s abdomen had lost its 
board-like rigidity and the tumor-like mass 
that heretofore had been so plainly palpable, 
was now not so distinctly outlined. The patient 
was sent to the surgical ward and I had him 
given a general anesthetic under ether, both 
paraffine tumors were removed, both hernias 
repaired, but no attempt was made to operate 
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in his physical well being by the injections 
of pregnant blood serum and nothing else, be- 
cause that was all the treatment he received. 
He made an uneventful recovery from the her- 
nia operations and continued to receive the 
pregnant blood serum injections over a period of 
seven weeks. The extreme dyspnoea from 
which he suffered upon entry into the hospital 
and which was produced by the tumor pres- 
sure, had all subsided and he was able to eat 
and digest most anything he cared for. He 
is alive today, showing marked improvement 
and apparently a complete destruction of the 
cancerous progress. 
The second case subjected to this pregnant 
blood serum, was a lady living in a distant 
state who had been to a hospital and opened 
up. The cancer involving her stomach and in- 
testines had progressed to such an extent that 
the surgeons closed without attempting its 
removal. She was unable to take any nour- 
ishment at all and was given but a few hours 
to live. Not having the pregnant human blood 
to use, I sent her pregnant cow blood serum 
which our local veterinary was good enough 
to supply me with and from whom I have been 
receiving supplies for treating cases that I am 
subjecting to this experiment work. This lady 
has managed to live, is losing her pain and is 
suffering less since the injections of the preg- 
nant cow blood serum have been given than 
before. The report from her nurse and hus- 
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results already obtained that they believe she 
will be cured. Of course, I do not think so, 
because extensive involvements of vital struc- 
tures mean death to the patients, even though 
we have an agent that will destroy and in- 
hibit the disease. If the liver or stomach is 
filled with cancerous tumors destroying physi- 
ological function, even though we can direct 
an agent to them that will destroy the path- 
ological process and cure it, we cannot restore 
a ruined liver or stomach and this applies to 
any other vital organ or part of the body. 
My third case is a lady who has been suffer- 
ing for twelve years from a cancer located 
underneath her left eye, involving the nasal 
septum and malar and turbinate bones. She 
had taken X-ray and radium treatments with- 
out any benefit. She has been receiving for 
the past two weeks intramuscular injections of 
pregnant cow blood serum and is obtaining 
marked benefit. The hitherto ulcerative, un- 
yielding, eating sore is beginning to granu- 
late, the board-like hardness underneath her 
eye and in here upper lip and extending oven 
her left cheek and into her nose, is now just 
as soft as any part of her body and the angry 
condition has subsided and the distinctive red- 
ness characteristic in this type has disap- 
peared. Furthermore, the excruciating pain 
radiating through her eye and malar bones 
has entirely subsided. The cancerous process 
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nostril the air rushed out through the sore. 
This has already healed over. 
In further experimental research work with 
pregnant animal blood serum and its applica- 
tion to the destruction of cancer cells, I 
have taken the liberty of removing from hu- 
mans, some small cancer tumors, freezing and 
sectioning them and staining and examining 
under the microscope to be absolutely sure 
that the tissue concerned was cancerous. 
Then placing some of this proven cancerous 
tissue in the pregnant animal blood serum, I 
have observed the destructive action of the 
pregnant serum upon the cancerous cells con- 
tained in the tissue. I have furthermore de- 
liberately injected the pregnant animal blood 
serum directly into the cancerous growth on 
the patient’s body and observed the same de- 
structive processes. 
I believe, in justice to the millions of people 
who have or will have cancer and in order to 
prevent them from being imposed upon by 
quacks and others who will immediately at- 
tempt to duplicate and commercialize my ex- 
periments, that some means should be afforded 
me for safeguarding the value of my discovery 
to the human race along the same lines that 
have been inaugurated for the protection of 
“insulin,” made by Banting. I am of the sin- 
cere belief that my experimental work is one 
of the most valuable discoveries of the age, for 
the findings and experiments outlined by me, 
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tion. I am attempting to concentrate the preg- 
nant animal serum so that a large dose can 
be given in a small volume of serum. This re- 
duction must be brought about without heat- 
ing the serum as heat seems to destroy the 
cancerolytic properties. 
Milford, Kansas, Feb. 26th, 1923. ANNOUNCEMENT 
For the past three years I have contributed 
articles and advertisements to the New 
Thought Magazine, which is now called Re- 
juvenation. Many of the readers of this book 
will remember having read my contributions 
to the above mentioned magazine. However, 
my future contributions will probably appear 
in the Hygienic Magazine. This magazine 
will be devoted to the health problems of to- 
day and will be a strictly scientific, medical 
magazine, confining itself to things medical 
and surgical, which I believe will better serve 
my interests. 
Those of you desiring to subscribe for the 
Hygienic Magazine, will notify me and you 
will be supplied with subscription rates. 
91 CORRESPONDENCE 
I welcome correspondence from people de- 
sirous of having my operation performed upon 
themselves or their friends. I read and an- 
swer all letters myself, giving them my per- 
sonal attention. All letters are strictly con- 
fidential. People need have no fear of writ- 
ing me, dealing with the most delicate sub- 
jects. The names of patients are never used 
as reference unless the patients voluntarily 
give their consent. I have been performing 
this operation at Milford, Kansas, for many 
years and have thereby won an international 
reputation; furthermore, gland transplantation 
has been almost unanimously accorded its place 
in legitimate surgery. Under the circumstances 
I no longer see the need of references. I am just 
as sincerely interested in getting you well as you 
are in being well, and you are not running any 
risk or taking any chances when you place your- 
self in my hands. Besides, it is an easy matter 
for any one who might be skeptical to come here 
and make a personal investigation for himself and 
see what we are doing. 
92 HOW TO REACH MILFORD, KANSAS 
This little village is located on a branch line of 
the Union Pacific Railroad, running between 
Junction City, Kansas and Belleville, Kansas. 
The village is twelve miles north of Junction 
City, Kansas, twenty-five miles northwest of 
Manhattan, Kansas, thirty-five miles northeast 
from Abilene, Kansas, and twenty-five miles 
south of Clay Center, Kansas, located in Geary 
County. 
The Milford depot is located one mile from 
town, out in a big corn field, and when you reach 
the depot no other buildings are to be seen and 
many patients arriving think they have reached 
the wrong place; however, this is not true. An 
automobile bus, one that has been made over 
from an old army truck, meets all trains, which 
are four in number daily and brings you directly 
to the hospital, which you will find modern 
throughout. 
This is an ideal location for a hospital from 
the first of October until the first of May. The 
winters are just cold enough to be exhilarating 
and out here on these western plains the air is 
pure and refreshing. The food is of the best, 
being supplied principally from the local farms. 
Large and spacious grounds surround the hos- 
pital, no congestion existing. Furthermore, the 
tired business man who desires to break away 
from his every day office strain and lose him- 
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self to his friends and associates, cannot find a 
better location for the purpose. 
This hospital closes every summer because of 
the heat in this state. While it is not any warmer 
here than in many other states, our patients come 
from the representative business men and women 
of Europe and America and they are accustomed 
to desirable climate in winter and summer and 
our summers might prove depressing. 
Letters may be addressed to me at Milford, 
Kansas, at any time, because the hospital office is 
open the year round. 
People coming from southern, eastern or 
northern points parallel with the state of Kansas, 
should plan to arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, 
to connect with the 10:40 A. M. Union Pacific 
train. This is a first-class through train carrying 
sleepers and dining car. You change trains at 
Junction City, Kansas, and arrive at Milford at 
3:58 P. M. the same day. Those coming from 
the west should travel over the Union Pacific 
Railroad, leaving Denver, Colorado, at 9:00 P. M. 
This train is modern and you reach Junction 
City, Kansas, at 12:35 in the afternoon, connect- 
ing with the 3:25 passenger train for Milford, 
Kansas.