Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff was a French surgeon of Russian origin who gained fame for his practice of xenotransplantation of monkey testicle tissues onto the testicles of men, purportedly as an anti-aging therapy while working in France in the 1920s and '30s.
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![14-year-old boy a day before having an ape thyroid gland grafted onto his own; and same boy at age 15. From Serge Voronoff's book Life: A Study of the Means of Restoring (1920)[20]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/Voronoff_Jean_G.JPG/500px-Voronoff_Jean_G.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
14-year-old boy a day before having an ape thyroid gland grafted onto his own; and same boy at age 15. From Serge Voronoff's book Life: A Study of the Means of Restoring (1920)[20]
European group which visited Algiers to report on the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff's work; includes Voronoff, F.M.A Marshall, F.A.E Crew, W.C Miller and Arthur Walton, 1927Awards 1
Doctors born in the 1860s 6
About this person
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1866 to 1951 · aged 85
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