“Replace them by Salads and Vegetables”: Dietary Innovation, Youthfulness, and Authority, 1900–1939

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Figure 1. A characteristic image of claimed rejuvenation, published in one of Serge Voronoff’s most complete accounts of his methods.

Notes: The patient, Georges Behr, is pictured prior to treatment at the age of 73 and one year later after the gland-grafting operation which gained much notoriety throughout the Western world in the interwar period. Serge Voronoff, Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe, Paris: G. Doin, 1926, reproduced by kind permission of Wellcome Library, London, L0068506.