Show U. U S. S DO DOCTOR N HERO ERO OF INTERSTITIAL GRAFTING Discoverer of Gland Grafting Grafting Grafting Graft Graft- ing Tested Theories on His Own Body By Ernest J. J Hopkins Stiff Stall Correspondent SAN QUE QUENTIN TIN Cal Oct 31 Dr G. G Frank L Lydston American surgeon be became became became be- be came world pioneer In Interstitial tissue grafting by means of a painful operation operation operation opera opera- tion which he performed upon him him- self This revelation of heroism and soldier soldier- like devotion to science Is here given to the public for the first time It follows fol- fol follows fol Col- lows the declaration of Dr Leo L I. I Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- ley prison ph physician that Dr L Lydston rather than Dr Serge of Paris should receive credit tor lor the discovery of gland Implantation Lydston Is a Californian who ha has hag practiced In Chicago for many a years fOD Dr arl rl rece recently stated that he had been performing this operation for fora a year ear Dr L Lydston's self operation was performed January 16 1914 when hen he was 56 years ears old od It Wa was a partial success sufficient to convince Dr Lydston of oC the Importance of the Interstitial cells and the possibility possibility possibility of transplanting them from dead human beings to living men From that time on Dr I Lydston ha has repeatedly used this device In his tice In Tn the West est Dr has followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed Dr Lydston's In ten cases aided by the special opportunities open to a prison physician A HERO OF SCIENCE The story of Dr Lydston's self on- on operation operation op op- deserves ot of stand high In the annals of American heroism The double problem of oC procuring proper human proper conditions conditions con con- and having a complaisant subject subject sub sub- ready and waiting for the experiment experiment ment seemed insoluble writes Dr Lydston Lyd- Lyd ston in recounting the self operation The plan of combining surgeon and subject suggested Itself and the author resolved to perform the experiment upon his own person January 16 16 1914 there was placed at the authors author's disposal an appropriate male subject subject subject-a a suicide by guns gunshot ot who had been dead seventeen hours Danger Dangel of a malignant disease could not be eliminated but was not sufficient to weigh heavily in the balance of the opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to secure the long tong sought material ma ma- I Assisted by Dr Carl Michel Dr Lydston Lydston Lyd- Lyd ston applied local anaesthetic which he sa says sas s was was only partially successful The patient himself wielded the Knife and the first Implantation of its kind was performed PROVED THEORIES TRUE The tissue so 50 Implanted lived and functioned functioned successfully for several months and gradually disappeared During this interval Dr L Lydston states he Wl was conscious conscious conscious con of ot unusual vigor Several long longstanding longstanding longstanding standing weaknesses disappeared In eight weeks he gained ten pounds Dr Lydston declares the experiment proved that the fluid secreted by the Interstitial in interstitial interstitial In- In cells or cells of Leydig Is Itself a cell stimulant nutrient and re regenerator regenerator re- re generator affecting the entire bod body He lIe believes it may be the secret of sex ex determination and of curing Unlike Dr he makes no claim that the operation will I prolong life lICe |