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Monkey gland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2022
Entity authorityQ21072082 ↗
Source-derived summary

Monkey gland may refer to surgeon Serge Voronoff's 1920s technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes.

Editorial summary

“Monkey gland” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Monkey, gland and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 25-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Monkey, gland and Wikimedia.
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“Monkey gland” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Monkey, gland and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 17, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q21072082. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Monkey gland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.