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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bad News From the Past Gland Larceny

Posted by Cliff Doerksen on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:30 AM

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Chicago Tribune, October 15, 1922. Here's a little backstory on that scrotum-tightening wave of 'nad thefts back in 1922.

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See, your high school principal was right: Cliques are inherently evil.

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What, they took the meat along with the two veg? That's just plain gratuitous.

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Gotta commend the guy for coming forward. That took, um, guts.

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Yes, Henry's just as happy as a comfy old house cat. It hasn't changed him a bit.

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This is actually pretty close to the plot of Tim McCann's way-sick 2005 neo-noir Nowhere Man. It's little known but esteemed by some of the world's most discerning film critics.

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Had Crowe been a little more erudite, he might have thrown in a reference to "Gland Guignol."

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A crime of mayhem: yes, at very least.

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Stay tuned for further developments.
P.S. Somehow it escaped my attention till now that the headline promises "two more" victims of gland banditry, whereas text yields but one victim robbed of two glands. Talk about your fuzzy math.

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Sounds like a load of bollocks if you ask me.

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Posted by Sock Puppet Larry on January 13, 2010 at 4:22 PM

What always surprised me about all this gland stuff is that it should have become obvious fairly quickly that the implanted glands were being rejected or causing infection or something and in any case not curing the impotence they were intended to cure. Yet Doc Brinkley, the most famous goat gland man in the US, and Voronoff, the European equivalent, got filthy rich at it. (Brinkley's is a particularly fascinating story, involving a run for the governorship of Kansas and a pioneering role in radio huckstering.) I wonder if the docs involved weren't faking it all along, but these attacks certainly sound like the docs involved were serious in looking for glands to use.

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Posted by Michael Gebert on January 28, 2010 at 9:02 PM
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