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The San Quentin prison doctor who performed over 10,000 human experiments
SF Gate ^ | May 2, 2022 | By Katie Dowd

Posted on 05/08/2022 7:21:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Shortly before Thanksgiving 1919, as Antone Lepara was waiting to be hanged for murder, his soon-to-be widow received an unusual request.

The letter asked Mrs. Lepara if she would be willing to sell her husband’s testicles after his death. The writer, a wealthy businessman, was willing to pay $10,000 — almost $150,000 in today’s money.

It was a good arrangement all-around for the businessman. He’d have a new, virile pair of testes from a man no longer in need of them, and one of America’s foremost experts on gland surgery worked right on the prison premises: San Quentin Chief Surgeon Leo Stanley.

In the year since starting gland transplants, Dr. Stanley had already made a name for himself. He was experimenting with putting animal testicles into men, but human-to-human transplants were preferred. Working at San Quentin gave him access to the organs of recently dead young men at a rate few other doctors could boast.

Mrs. Lepara had two daughters to support, and $10,000 would have made their lives much easier in the wake of their breadwinner’s death. But, without much agonizing, she turned the anonymous businessman down.

“It would seem too much like blood money," she said.

The change of plans didn’t bother Stanley; instead, he decided the glands would go to a “senile” older inmate. It was a common enough procedure for the doctor.

In the next 20 years, he would perform over 10,000 testicular implants within the walls of San Quentin State Prison.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: eugenics; leostanley; progressives; sanquentin; testicularimplants
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1 posted on 05/08/2022 7:21:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Apparently he took them from liberal men. They didn’t need them anyway. That evolution led to now they have their balls removed by their teachers starting in kindergarten.


2 posted on 05/08/2022 7:24:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Todays conspiracy theory is tomorrows spoiler alert." )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
In the next 20 years, he would perform over 10,000 testicular implants within the walls of San Quentin State Prison.

Huh?? How many men passed through this prison in 20 years????

3 posted on 05/08/2022 7:30:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Human expirements? 10 thousand of them? What’s there to learn after the first thou?


4 posted on 05/08/2022 7:37:20 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s nothing. Fauci has performed hundreds of millions of them…


5 posted on 05/08/2022 7:37:59 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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I wonder if Fauci interned with this guy?


6 posted on 05/08/2022 7:38:43 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: PGR88

5000*2?

Who would want someone else’balls? I mean, they’d be producing the donor’s sperm, right?

Eeww!


7 posted on 05/08/2022 7:39:55 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: EQAndyBuzz; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

The question is what were the results of the testicular gland replacements? Could the men still have erections and perform sexually in a normal fashion? Were his results ever published? Did he have a success rate or were his operation results failures? Inquiring minds want to know.


8 posted on 05/08/2022 7:44:36 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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Huh?? How many men passed through this prison in 20 years????

Could it be that many of them were transferred from other prisons? Let's see, bribes, maybe?

And, perhaps a lot of lesser crimes were increased to major crimes, in order to get the 'necessary' quota for the experiments?
9 posted on 05/08/2022 7:44:49 AM PDT by adorno
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he would perform over 10,000 testicular implants

Now if only he could perform it on the rinos in dc. I know the Jan 6th political prisoners would appreciate it.
10 posted on 05/08/2022 7:46:37 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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In the year since starting gland transplants, Dr. Stanley had already made a name for himself. He was experimenting with putting animal testicles into men, but human-to-human transplants were preferred.

Dr. Mengele lives in the hearts of too many men; souless men.


11 posted on 05/08/2022 7:49:29 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s just nuts!


12 posted on 05/08/2022 7:50:09 AM PDT by bigbob
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Huh?? How many men passed through this prison in 20 years????

When I was there, I would guess we got 2 or 3 busses of new inmates, 5 days a week. 😀

13 posted on 05/08/2022 7:54:36 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: bigbob

Nicely done!!


14 posted on 05/08/2022 7:59:44 AM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good thing I read the article. Based on the headline, I thought it was another expose on Fauci.


15 posted on 05/08/2022 8:02:46 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why are men needing a testicular retrofit?


16 posted on 05/08/2022 8:04:08 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can’t imagine what good mashed testicles injected into the stomach would do. Yikes.


17 posted on 05/08/2022 8:05:10 AM PDT by KittyKares (Trump put us in the room; now we're putting ourselves in the room. - Steve Bannon)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That means 1.36 operations per day, every day, for 20 years. Ridiculous.


18 posted on 05/08/2022 8:05:38 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

[[The letter asked Mrs. Lepara if she would be willing to sell her husband’s testicles after his death. The writer, a wealthy businessman, was willing to pay $10,000 — almost $150,000 in today’s money]]

Wow, those are some expensive cashews


19 posted on 05/08/2022 8:07:24 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nuts!


20 posted on 05/08/2022 8:07:38 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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