Davemen dont you think its intresting? By taking SLIT drops i feel more energy when i take them, i dont understand it...
"I also made a small (very small) contribution to SLSA myself. I gave a talk about reproduction and debt in two accounts of vasectomies: a novel published in 2002 by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell entitled VAS: An Opera in Flatland (Chicago: University of Chicago UP, 2002) and early Austrian endocrinologist Eugen Steinach's memoir Sex and Life: Forty Years of Biological and Medical Experiments (New York: Viking, 1940). The novel is wild (read it!), but in this post I'm going to focus on Steinach's account of his procedure. In the early twentieth century, based on his research with rats, Steinach came to believe that performing a unilateral or bilateral vasoligature (tying off the vas deferens) would lead to rejuvenation in older males. He first performed this procedure on a man in 1918 and, due to its perceived wild success, became something of a medical celebrity in the 1920s. His procedure came to be called the Steinach Operation in order to differentiate it from a vasectomy proper, which at the time was used primarily to sterilize those deemed "unfit" for reproduction. A Steinach Operation, in contrast, could be either unilateral or bilateral (to be effective as contraception, vasectomies must be bilateral), and the force behind its promotion was tied not to contraception but instead to rejuventation. Steinach and his followers reported that after the procedure, formerly weak patients who were unfit for work felt reinvigorated and reborn. For example, Harry Benjamin, an early follower of Steinach, reported that his patients experienced an increase in strength, improvement in hearing, new growth of pigmented hair, reappareance of "mental buoyancy," return of ambition, desire for work, improvement of memory and concentration, general overall feeling of well-being, restoration of sexual potency, increase of libido, and better erections after the procedure. The force behind the operation, then, was tied to rejuvenating the aging body so it could perform better physically and economically. While Steinach and his followers stressed that although the improvement in sexual potency was nearly universal, it should not be the main motivation for undergoing the operation. Instead, the procedure allowed those formerly unfit for work to return and become productive members of society once again, thus temporarily postponing the deleterious economic consequences of aging.
There are many interesting and weird aspects of this history that I don't have the time or space to discuss here, but what I do want to share here is Steinach's fondness for before and after photos of his patients. Meant to illustrate the striking effectiveness of his procedure, the pictures occur in couples: first, a photo of a supposedly weak and feeble patient before the procedure; then, a photo of the supposedly restored, rejuvenated, and enlivened patient after the procedure. While most of Steinach's photos are of rats and sometimes dogs, the reports of his followers from the 1920s sometimes include before and after pictures of men. "
