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> 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 sup
by 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...