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Getting 'Steinached' was all the rage in Roaring ’20s (2017)
- hprotagonist 5y agoWhy go for minced testes when you can just ram whole goat balls in? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhexl https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhexl do it right, and you'll wind up building the highest power pirate radio station in the west!
- pram 5y agoHaha I was going to post the same thing. I'm from Del Rio and Brinkley is still a very well known figure to everyone there.
- meepmorp 5y ago> Unsurprisingly, in light of his questionable medical training (75 percent completion at a less-than-reputable medical school), frequency of operating while intoxicated and less-than-sterile operating environments, some patients suffered from infection, and an undetermined number died. Brinkley would be sued more than a dozen times for wrongful death between 1930 and 1941. Let's be fair: see how well you do implanting goat testicles in people when you're drunk and don't know what you're doing anyway.
- Y_Y 5y agoModern medical ethics obviously forbids anyone from being intoxicated or working in a less than spotless surgical environment. The price of caprine xenotransplantation has gone up 4000% even after accounting for inflation though.
- chefkoch 5y agoNow we just let them operate sleep deprieved.
- analognoise 5y agoDon't forget deny medical degrees from other places the right to practice, and collusion between hospitals to keep prices high.
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- burnt_toast 5y agoThis is what I was expecting the article to be about at first. Very interesting podcast episode lol
- 1-more 5y agoThe Dollop also covered him in episode 62! In addition to his freaky surgical quackery he was a pioneer in border blaster radio stations (operating in Mexico at higher power than the US's FCC would allow). He even got a law named after him to ban the practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkley_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkley_Act
- walrus01 5y agoIf you visit some of the 'street food' markets in the urban cores of Rawalpindi or Lahore you can find food cart vendors with fried sheep and goat testicles for sale. It's fairly common.
- gambiting 5y agoEven in the US some places eat "mountain oysters" - which are just bull testicles. Not exactly common, but not unheard of either.
- dylan604 5y agoWhich is doubly weird where in Texas there's nary a mountain found.
- hprotagonist 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters "calf fries" is apparently the panhandle localism.
- leephillips 5y agoIt may be more common in Appalachia.
- strait 5y agoWest Texas is still in Texas.
- dylan604 5y agoThis is fun. I can play too. East Texas is also still in Texas. South Texas is still in Texas. And wait for it... North Texas is in Oklahoma? No, that's not right. It's also still in Texas.
- Anarch157a 5y agoHere in Sao Paulo, theres a dinner that serves fried rooster testicles. People will eat the strangest things if they believe it will make them more "manly".
- kazinator 5y ago> highest power pirate radio station in the west While it's great to have lofty goals for the sake of advancing an art of craft, I'd consider anything over 13 inches to be a success.
- wpietri 5y agoFor those interested, I strongly recommend the Brinkley documentary "Nuts!" http://www.nutsthefilm.com/ http://www.nutsthefilm.com/ It was both funny and informative. And the early-days-of-radio experience is surprisingly parallel to the early days of social media.
- jihadjihad 5y ago> Steinach described how his patients “changed from feeble, parched, dribbling drones, to men of vigorous bloom who threw away their glasses, shaved twice a day, dragged loads up to 220 pounds, and even indulged in such youthful follies as buying land in Florida.”
- dylan604 5y agoWas this the origin back story for Florida Man?
- dbt00 5y agoNo, the popular real estate scam of the 1920s was selling "oceanfront" property in florida that was really just swampland. The origin story for Florida Man is that Florida's sunshine laws make police records public by default, so on a slow news day the local paper just trawls whatever wacky arrest records are open to the public and publishes that shit. Dumb crazy people are everywhere in the USA (and anywhere else) -- although more Florida stories involve alligators than average.
- dylan604 5y agopssst, look up. waaay up. that thing that just flew over your head. that was a joke.
- hamiltonians 5y agoIt goes to show how far back the origins of anabolic steroids is.
- shrubble 5y agoThis may have led to the famous satirical book by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, 'Heart of a Dog', as well.
- wpietri 5y agoStellar book! A short but lively read that I've come back to many times.
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- hprotagonist 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog#Background seems like it may have been an inspiration for some of the characteristics of Professor Preobrazhensky, at least.
- Bluestein 5y agoNo wonder the '20s were so roaring :)
- throwawayboise 5y ago"the sooner the general public and especially septuagenarian readers of the latest sensation understand that for the physically used up and worn out there is no secret of rejuvenation, no elixir of youth, the better." Wise words even today.
- gcanyon 5y agoNah, if/when reliable and safe treatment is available to retard/reverse general aging, I’ll jump on that. I’m hoping it’s in the next 5-20 years.
- davidw 5y ago> Eventually more than a thousand men underwent the monkey gland treatment at the hands of doctors around the world, with the requisite material often being supplied by a monkey farm Voronoff set up on the Italian Riviera. That's pretty wild... I had to go look it up and found this: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_Voronoff https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_Voronoff
- abcd_f 5y agoThere is a “monkey park” in Alsatz part of France, near Colmar. Always looked bizarrely out of place to me. I wonder if it’s of the same origin...
- CobrastanJorji 5y agoIt's funny how at the time pop science said "eunuchs seem sickly and age more quickly" and today's pop science says "eunuchs live an unusually long time."
- dnautics 5y agostrictly speaking both can be true
- swayvil 5y agoAre we drawing a parallel between this and the presently popular practice of getting injected with the "covid vaccine"?
- telharmonium 5y agoThere's a hilarious scene in Ned Beauman's "The Teleportation Accident" which revolves around Serge Voronoff’s monkey gland-grafting procedure. It's a wonderfully strange novel, set in the 1930's and richly marbled with the era's frenetic sexual, artistic, and scientific experimentation.
- birdyrooster 5y ago"even indulged in such youthful follies as buying land in Florida." lol
- userbinator 5y agoHe believed in his procedure so strongly that he “thrice reactivated himself.” It isn’t clear what he meant by “thrice,” because once the duct is tied off, it’s tied off. Maybe he had three of them... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyorchidism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyorchidism
- DubiousPusher 5y agoPeople were trying all kinds of things at this time to increase their labido. One such procedure was the implantation of goat testicles into the scrotum. A practice made popular by the fascinating and wrenched John Brinkley. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
- katzgrau 5y agoCurious whether this was considered leading science or if most serious scientists questioned it at the time. I'm guessing this sort of thing also happens today under the label of science and will be HN fodder in about 100 years.
- tempodox 5y agoCryostasis still seems to be a thing: https://www.cryonics.org/ci-landing/human-cryostasis/ https://www.cryonics.org/ci-landing/human-cryostasis/
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoWe still attach a lot of importance to the manipulation of sex hormones. We just do it in a better way now. And in truth, being able to go through something like a "second puberty" could be good. We might today not like the exaggeration of sexual characteristics -- if anything we prefer childlike androgyny -- but some of the other things that happen during puberty -- brain development, increases to bone density -- could be useful.