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Many Kansans are familiar with the name John R. Brinkley, notorious doctor from Milford, known for his goat-gland transplant procedure in the early 1900s. However, few are aware that the smalltown of Rosalia has ties to his name and, more specifically, his chief surgeon, O. M. Owensby.
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Farrar, Jan (2014). "The Goat-Gland Doctors of Rosalia," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2014/people/7
The Goat-Gland Doctors of Rosalia
Many Kansans are familiar with the name John R. Brinkley, notorious doctor from Milford, known for his goat-gland transplant procedure in the early 1900s. However, few are aware that the smalltown of Rosalia has ties to his name and, more specifically, his chief surgeon, O. M. Owensby.
