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graft for which Nature is responsible. Here the 

 circulatory system resembled that of one rather 

 than of two beings. An imitation of this kind has 

 been produced in white rats by opening up the 

 membrane enclosing the abdomen and stitching the 

 skin and connective tissues together. 



Steinach's contribution. In approaching the 

 work of Steinach and others we must be more than 

 ever careful to distinguish fact from fancy; to re- 

 late actual experiments without drawing fanciful 

 conclusions from them. Professor Steinach, one 

 of the best known among the workers on the func- 

 tions of the sex glands, is a member of the Vienna 

 Academy of Sciences, and Director of its Biological 

 Institute. His work as a biologist has commanded 

 the respect and admiration of his colleagues 

 throughout the world, though some of his interpre- 

 tations of his work have not gone unchallenged. 



These prefatory remarks are necessary because 

 the impression seems to have gained ground that 

 he is one of many quacks that fatten on the public's 

 credulity. Such, in fact, was the impression 

 gained by many newspaper readers after hearing of 

 the sudden death of a rich Australian, who was to 

 deliver a public lecture in London on "How I was 

 made twenty years younger by the method of Dr. 

 Steinach," and who died under somewhat mysteri- 

 ous circumstances on the very eve of the lecture. 

 The newspaper drew the moral of St. Mark that 



