[HN Gopher] Getting 'Steinached' was all the rage in Roaring '20...
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Getting 'Steinached' was all the rage in Roaring '20s (2017)
Author : Vigier
Score : 59 points
Date : 2021-07-20 23:52 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| davidw wrote:
| > Eventually more than a thousand men underwent the monkey gland
| treatment at the hands of doctors around the world, with the
| requisite material often being supplied by a monkey farm Voronoff
| set up on the Italian Riviera.
|
| That's pretty wild... I had to go look it up and found this:
| https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_Voronoff
| hprotagonist wrote:
| Why go for minced testes when you can just ram whole goat balls
| in? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
|
| https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhexl
|
| do it right, and you'll wind up building the highest power pirate
| radio station in the west!
| 1-more wrote:
| The Dollop also covered him in episode 62! In addition to his
| freaky surgical quackery he was a pioneer in border blaster
| radio stations (operating in Mexico at higher power than the
| US's FCC would allow). He even got a law named after him to ban
| the practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkley_Act
| bena wrote:
| Wall of Voodoo's song Mexican Radio is about listening to
| border blasters.
| pram wrote:
| Haha I was going to post the same thing. I'm from Del Rio and
| Brinkley is still a very well known figure to everyone there.
| wpietri wrote:
| For those interested, I strongly recommend the Brinkley
| documentary "Nuts!" http://www.nutsthefilm.com/
|
| It was both funny and informative. And the early-days-of-radio
| experience is surprisingly parallel to the early days of social
| media.
| burnt_toast wrote:
| This is what I was expecting the article to be about at first.
| Very interesting podcast episode lol
| meepmorp wrote:
| > Unsurprisingly, in light of his questionable medical training
| (75 percent completion at a less-than-reputable medical
| school), frequency of operating while intoxicated and less-
| than-sterile operating environments, some patients suffered
| from infection, and an undetermined number died. Brinkley would
| be sued more than a dozen times for wrongful death between 1930
| and 1941.
|
| Let's be fair: see how well you do implanting goat testicles in
| people when you're drunk and don't know what you're doing
| anyway.
| Y_Y wrote:
| Modern medical ethics obviously forbids anyone from being
| intoxicated or working in a less than spotless surgical
| environment. The price of caprine xenotransplantation has
| gone up 4000% even after accounting for inflation though.
| chefkoch wrote:
| Now we just let them operate sleep deprieved.
| kazinator wrote:
| > _highest power pirate radio station in the west_
|
| While it's great to have lofty goals for the sake of advancing
| an art of craft, I'd consider anything over 13 inches to be a
| success.
| walrus01 wrote:
| If you visit some of the 'street food' markets in the urban
| cores of Rawalpindi or Lahore you can find food cart vendors
| with fried sheep and goat testicles for sale. It's fairly
| common.
| PicassoCTs wrote:
| This reminds me of the joke with the tourist in spain, who
| orders "cohones del toro", the testicles of combat-bulls and
| likes them so much, it becomes his daily food. One day he
| gets a much smaller portion. He calls the waiter to complain,
| pointing first at the arena, then at the plate :"What is
| this?" The waiter: "Today the bull won."
| gambiting wrote:
| Even in the US some places eat "mountain oysters" - which are
| just bull testicles. Not exactly common, but not unheard of
| either.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Which is doubly weird where in Texas there's nary a
| mountain found.
| hprotagonist wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters
|
| "calf fries" is apparently the panhandle localism.
| leephillips wrote:
| It may be more common in Appalachia.
| strait wrote:
| West Texas is still in Texas.
| dylan604 wrote:
| This is fun. I can play too. East Texas is also still in
| Texas. South Texas is still in Texas. And wait for it...
| North Texas is in Oklahoma? No, that's not right. It's
| also still in Texas.
| Anarch157a wrote:
| Here in Sao Paulo, theres a dinner that serves fried
| rooster testicles.
|
| People will eat the strangest things if they believe it
| will make them more "manly".
| shrubble wrote:
| This may have led to the famous satirical book by Russian writer
| Mikhail Bulgakov, 'Heart of a Dog', as well.
| wpietri wrote:
| Stellar book! A short but lively read that I've come back to
| many times.
| Bluestein wrote:
| No wonder the '20s were so roaring :)
| throwawayboise wrote:
| "the sooner the general public and especially septuagenarian
| readers of the latest sensation understand that for the
| physically used up and worn out there is no secret of
| rejuvenation, no elixir of youth, the better."
|
| Wise words even today.
| gcanyon wrote:
| Nah, if/when reliable and safe treatment is available to
| retard/reverse general aging, I'll jump on that. I'm hoping
| it's in the next 5-20 years.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| It's funny how at the time pop science said "eunuchs seem sickly
| and age more quickly" and today's pop science says "eunuchs live
| an unusually long time."
| dnautics wrote:
| strictly speaking both can be true
| jihadjihad wrote:
| > _Steinach described how his patients "changed from feeble,
| parched, dribbling drones, to men of vigorous bloom who threw
| away their glasses, shaved twice a day, dragged loads up to 220
| pounds, and even indulged in such youthful follies as buying land
| in Florida."_
| dylan604 wrote:
| Was this the origin back story for Florida Man?
| hamiltonians wrote:
| It goes to show how far back the origins of anabolic steroids is.
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