Subject: Hour of Slack Piss

From: Kolaga Xiuhtecuhtli <XXXiuhtecuhtli@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 8:40 PM
Message-ID: <3D618F56.C1D15C2C@worldnet.att.net>

The quest to use so-called testicular extracts as a fountain
of youth began with a memorable experiment. On June 1, 1889,
a 72-year-old French physiologist, Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard,
reported to spellbound doctors at a medical meeting that he
had injected himself with a substance extracted from the
testicles of dogs and guinea pigs. The injections, he said,
"had increased his physical strength and intellectual energy,
relieved his constipation and even lengthened the arc of his
urine."

By 1918, Dr. Leo L. Stanley, the prison doctor at San Quentin,
was transplanting testicles from executed prisoners into
healthy ones, asserting that the treatment restored health
and potency. Soon, Dr. Stanley was substituting testicles from
rams, goats and deer, and contending they were just as effective.
Hundreds of patients sought him out.

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