The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-27
FINDS ANOTHER LIFE ELIXIR
French Scientists Alleged Discovery
of Secret of Youth.

New York, Dee. 2J.-The Sun pub
fishes dispatch from London which
says that the Paris correspondent of the
Morning Post describes a remarkable
discovery which has just been made at
the Pasteur Institute.
He says THAT Professor Metchnikoff is
engaged in seeking accurate doses of a
series of lymphs, each of which will re-
juvenate a particular organ of the hui
man body. The Professor objects to pre-
mature publicity and insists That the cor
respondent only say that he has hope.
The correspondent says:
professor MetchnikOff's experiments
show that the explanation of semile afro
phy has hitherto been erroneous. The
theory was that certain blood cells de-
voured others and the vital functions be-
gan to weaken. The organic poisons
thrown off energetically i'll youth were
believed to remain in the system in old
age. or ut least to be less energctically
elected. These poisoned the finer cells,
while without action on those Of the
conjunctive tissues. The noble cells died,
became the prey of the other or pie
ban cells, thus bringing atrophy to the
organ where the metanorphOsiS occur
red Professor Mechnikoff has proved
concusively that the noble cells are not
dead in the organs atrophied by sen
ility.
Moreover, they may he multiplied. If
assisted in their struggle with the Pile
b;an cells. they continue to live actively
as in youth, and, theoretically, the or
ganism will cease to grow old and life
viii be prolonged. Professor Metchni-
koff has found means of affording thiS
resistance, and the results already ob
tanned are extraordinary.
The discovery was made in the fol
lowing manner: NJ. Bordet, one of the
Professors pupils i'm 1898, published
the results Of a curious experiment
which consisted of injecting the blood
of a rabbit into guinea pig. Later
he injected the blood of this guinea pig
into a rabbit and the latter died. Pro
feSsor Metchnikoff sought the causes Of
the phenomena. and wtus soon convinced
| that the blood Of the guinea pig, IN
jected into rabbit or other vertebrate
animal, celebrates the poison that weak
ems the red globules of the blood and
makes them the prey of the phagocytes
Starting from the fact that the poison
elaborated in the guinea pig is fatal in
! large doses, Professor Metchnikoff ar
| gued that the action in small doses must
be stimulating. On this is based the
action of all medicines, such as strych
nine and arsenic.
HE, therefore, began to inject int
rabbits feeble solutions of previously
injected guinea pigs blood. A cubic
milimeter of the blood of the rabbits thus
treated contained before the injections
100000 red glObules. In three or fou.
days the number increased to 100000
a sovereign remedy against anaemia
has been discovered and the theory con
cerming the red globuleS has been con
| firmed An entire section of the Pasteul
Institute is now working to find the speci
fie seialns for each particular organ i
the blood serum acts on the red glObule:
| of the liver the serum must have sim
/ liar effect ON the cells of the liver, anC
this is likewise true of other organs. Th'
/ experiments have demonstrated this.
"A specific kidney serum was founC
some days ago. The Professor is now
determining the exact dose for medica
purposes. The discovery has now passet
the period of mere laboratory expert
ments. The celebrated DIR. Vidal rs now
at work ON human serums.
The correspondent draws attention. Il
the obvious result, the great prolongatior
of human life, if everything is success
/ ful