(From The Chicago Tribune, of date February 1, 1920.)
GOAT GLANDS GIVE BABIES TO CHILDLESS.
Woman and Three Men Become Parents After Transplantation.
Milford, Kansas.—A surgeon in this little Kansas town has lifted from womanhood the curse of sterility.
He is Dr. J. R. Brinkley, chief surgeon of the Brinkley-Jones Hospital of Milford.
For several years Dr. Brinkley has made a study of the transplantation of the interstitial glands and its results. Two years ago he performed his first operation upon a human being. Since then he has circumvented nature four times, making it possible for three men and one woman to become parents. He is awaiting results hopefully in four other cases.
The most remarkable case is that of the woman. She is a young married woman of Milford, who had been married several years and had despaired of bearing children. About a year and a half ago she heard of Dr. Brinkley and his success with interstitial gland operations. She went to him and asked him if he could cure her sterility. Dr. Brinkley made no promises—he never does. But he told her
the operation was a simple one, and that it would improve her health, even if it failed to give her a child. She gladly submitted to the operation.
Dr. Brinkley removed an interstitial gland from a live male goat. He made a slight incision in the woman’s abdomen, inserted the gland and stitched it in. In a week the patient was about her household duties again. Six months ago she gave birth to a healthy baby. It was a boy. The mother was the happiest woman in Kansas.
The surgeon had treated six other cases similarly, but all were men—men who loved children and yearned for parenthood. Three of the men are now fathers of healthy children.