June, 2017
Dr. Serge Voronoff visited Brazil during the Jornadas Médicas of 1928, where he demonstrated his xenotransplantation technique to the local medical community.
He claimed that grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men will give patients back their youth, help they live longer and improve their sexual performance.
The article Dr. Voronoff’s curious glandular xenoimplants, published in Manguinhos in 2007, uses newspaper clippings from that era to illustrate how this controversial surgery was viewed in the popular imagination and influenced Brazilian popular culture.
Voronoff’s invention was in one of the questions of the SciShow Quiz Show, at Youtube!
