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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Yeah. 500 a year.
Wife: How was work today.
Husband/Doctor: Another day, another couple of nutjobs. If it wasn’t for balls we would be in the poorhouse.
That’s more than one/day!
“...He was experimenting with putting animal testicles into men...”
Wonder what the result would be if semen from those caused pregnancy??????
So, in short, human experimentation happened in the good old US of A just like it happens in modern day China with prisoners and just like it happens today in the US of A with murdered babies.
What a depraved society.
As a youth, one of his first jobs was as a “Peanut Butcher”.
That was slang for being a Newsboy.
San Quintin’s very own Dr Mengele even before Dr Mengele started his own experiments.
Didn’t Hitler’s doctor inject Adolf with ground up bull testicles on occasion? I remember reading that somewhere.
In 1913, despite having no surgical experience, Stanley was hired as the Chief Surgeon for San Quentin State Prison.[1] Stanley believed that diseases, in particular endocrine diseases, were the cause of crime, and wrote in his memoir that “perhaps the outworn glands look for solace in strange directions.”[1] He was a strong supporter of testicles grafting. The now-debunked theory that testicular transplant could cause male rejuvenation and age reversal was first proposed in 1889 and grew popular during the 1920s.[5]
RE: “Nuts”
Post of the Day!
Except in China abortions are forced as is the experimental operations
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That took a lot of balls.
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