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 French Hospital. Among his many books on his specialty is Sterility in Women. Conservative, he warned that not enough time has elapsed since his operations to prove that the results were permanent.

The operation is relatively simple. Nor is it difficult in a hospital for women to get healthy ovaries for transplanting. Many perfectly fertile women must have their glands removed for one cause or another. The tactful surgeon can easily persuade them to dispose of their useless organs to a sister unhappy in a different way. The actual transfer of the glands (cutting of the ovaries from one woman and stitching them into another) should not take more than 30 seconds.