UNCONFIRMED · Attribution is conventional in popular accounts but not securely documented in primary sources. Treated as illustrative rather than verified clinical fact.

W. Somerset Maugha

W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

1874–1965 · British

role:British novelist, short-story writer, and playwright

nationality:British

connection:Maugham, who lived at the Villa Mauresque on Cap Ferrat (French Riviera) from 1928 until his death, travelled to Clinique La Prairie for cellular-therapy treatment in his later decades. The treatment is named in clinic materials and popular accounts but has no documentary linkage to Niehans in primary sources. Maugham is among the most-frequently named cultural figures associated with the clinic's mid-twentieth-century reputation among Anglophone literary and artistic patrons; his presence among Niehans's patients is often cited in the wider literature on rejuvenation tourism.

confirmed:no (unverified)

APPEARS IN CASES

niehans-fetal-cells-1931-1971 patient

EXTERNAL REFERENCES

NOTES

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was among the most commercially successful writers of his generation. His public interest in life-extension protocols predated his reported association with Niehans’s protocol; he wrote and spoke about rejuvenation throughout the 1950s. Maugham lived to ninety-one, a fact occasionally cited in clinic marketing without adjustment for selection (the patient population at Clinique La Prairie was already drawn from the longest-lived demographic stratum in Europe) or for confounding (Maugham received high-quality conventional care throughout his life). His treatment outcomes are not described in published clinical material.