[Gamecock]

As absurd as it sounds, this piece of paper gave him the right to practice medicine in Arkansas

Arkansas? That explains a lot!

[tet68]

And when his wife gave birth to a boy, whom they appropriately named Billy,

Gosh, it doesn't get any better than this!
What trailor park did this happen in?

[gusopol3]

my father, who grew up in depression-era Kansas, has told us about the saga of Brinkley and the goat glands for years.

[Vinnie]

Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, a noted French physiologist, had shocked the medical community by injecting himself with the crushed testicles of young dogs

I remember reading about this man.
He met an untimely death.
Seems he was laying in the street licking his ba## and got hit by a truck.

[Slyfox]

And when his wife gave birth to a boy, whom they appropriately named Billy,

Huh, named "Billy"? He must've passed through Hope, Arkansas.

[Arthur McGowan]

In 1928 and 1929, when many silent pictures, already in the can, had sound segments added, so they could be advertised as "talking pictures," they were called "goat gland" pictures in the trade.

[JennysCool]

2003, by the way, is the Year of the Goat. And you have some nerve posting this with your screen name! :-)

[boris]

This seems b-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-d.

But the author forgot to mention one positive outcome: it sparked the Beatles' early hit, I Want to Hold Your Gland.

--Boris