tor, of course, and
yet it has happened at the hospital at Milford that a patient on being
questioned in advance of the operation has emphatically stated that he
had never contracted syphilis, and three days later, after the
transplantation, when the sloughing of the new glands had shown
something definitely wrong with the blood, this patient admitted that he
had not spoken the truth in the matter, but had contracted the disease
many years previously. On the other hand, in Locomoter Ataxia, in which
there is invariably a history of syphilis, the goat-glands take hold
without exception, the efficacy of the transplantation in this disease,
hitherto incurable by any means known to man, being due to the power of
the new glands to cause a dissolving of scar-tissue, in the opinion of
Dr. Abrams of San Francisco, who investigated the remarkable results
attained by Dr. Brinkley in his cures of Locomoter Ataxia by the
goat-gland operation.

If the goat-glands are transplanted into members of the Hebrew race
there follows invariably a high temperature persisting for several days,
after which the cure proceeds normally without any untoward occurrence.
Glands transplanted into a negro will slough, or, at least, they did so
in the one case on which Dr. Brinkley performed the operation, for no
apparent reason other than a supposed racial antagonism to goat-tissue.
No experiments have yet been conducted upon Japanese, Chinese, Hindus,
or our native Indians. When the blood count shows high in white
(leucocytes) and low in red, the glands will slough, but the reverse
condition does not hold true. And now let us consider the case of Mr.
Ernst, of Morganville, Kansas, who is over 77 years of age, and who
permits the use of his name and address. One of the most curious
features of his case is that when he came for the operation his hair,
white as snow, was thin on the scalp, the color of the skin of the scalp
showing through the hair, as it frequently does in the aged. That was
almost a year ago. Mr. Ernst's hair is now turning black all over the
head, the scalp shows a thickening in the growth, or an increase in the
quantity of hair, and you cannot now see the scalp through the hair. Mr.
Ernst wrote an excellent letter to Dr. Brinkley two months ago, and
states that he has no objection at all to its reproduction. When a
personal story of this kind is offered for use it is as well to use it
in its original form, but this so rarely happens