Science Vault: Monkey to Human Testicle Transplant Voronoff conducted extensive transplantation experiments within species as well: over 500 transplantations on sheep, goats, and a bull These involved grafting testicular tissue from younger
Serge Voronoff: The Doctor Who Transplanted Monkey . . . - Amusing Planet During the First World War, Voronoff became well known for performing bone transplants using material from combat amputees He also transplanted chimpanzee bone on a wounded French soldiers, and this operation gave the doctor the idea of transplanting a monkey testicle to a man
He made a Fortune in the 1920’s Transplanting Monkey Testicle Tissue . . . Voronoff notoriously tried reversing the process by transplanting human ovaries into a female monkey and even attempted to inseminate the primate with human sperm Needless to say the experiment failed, but it did get immortalised in literature, inspiring the novel Nora, the Monkey Turned Woman by Félicien Champsaur
Serge Voronoff - Wikipedia Voronoff's later work included transplants of monkey ovaries into women He also tried the reverse experiment, transplanting a human ovary into a female monkey, and then tried to inseminate the monkey with human sperm
Dr. Serge: The Man That Made Millions in the 1920s Transplanting . . . Not content to stop at men, Voronoff turned his attention to women, transplanting monkey ovaries in the hopes of offering similar benefits Ever the experimenter, he also tried transplanting human ovaries into female monkeys and inseminating the primates with human sperm
SFE: Voronoff, Serge - SF Encyclopedia (1866-1951) Russian-born surgeon and entrepreneur, in France from an early age; his theory that monkey testicles, when transplanted into the testicles of human males, would have a rejuvenating effect and increase longevity (see Rejuvenation), was influential during the 1920s