Medicine: Transplanted Ovaries

Dr. Anthony John Capper Magian, famed Manchester, Eng., gynecologist, last week flatly said that during the past ten years he had transplanted ovaries from healthy women to 100 apparently sterile women and that many of the repaired patients had subsequently borne children.

Until a year ago there were only three cures of female sterility in the history of medicine which could be definitely attributed to the transplanting of glands. Many a U. S. doctor doubted Dr. Magian. However, he is a solid authority—senior honorary surgeon to St. Margaret's Hospital for Women at Manchester, and honorary surgeon and gynecologist to the Manchester...

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