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Medical Fragments 29 “Untitled”


     Recently, the method of implanting a bovine pituitary gland into a human being in an effort to obtain the wonderful benefits of rejuvenation, restoring lost hair, promoting greater height, eliminating wrinkles, and reducing fatigue has become, although too good to be true, quite the craze. Doctors who specialize in this surgical technique have sprung up like toadstools after a rain and the fact that in the metropolitan area alone the number of clinics specializing in this technique amounts to over two hundred can only astonish. Problems concerning the method have raised the concerns of the Medical Association, which is now deliberating the issues. They seem to trouble the association as it has not been able to easily arrive at a definite conclusion.
     From our perspective, however, this issue is simple and can be easily resolved, so I will write about it. As I always teach, you should think of the practices of medical science along the same lines as use of the drug Philopon. The drug takes right away but the effect is only temporary. The efficaciousness of the pituitary gland method will last only a year at best, but in most cases for just a few months. The patient will not only suffer a relapse, but as something that never should have been ingested has entered the body which is thus harmed, and having undergone the operation will lead to other vicious diseases to cause much suffering. Surely there are many who remember the surgery for rejuvenation popular about a decade ago that, in no time, had vanished in smoke.
     Think of this recent technique along similar lines. I state without error that in one or two years this technique will also become like a ghost.


Eikô, Issue 194, February 4, 1953
 translation by cynndd