The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-10
MEN MAY LIVE $50 YEARS.
rxrI>T IN PARIS TELL OF" HIS
WONDERFUL EXPERIMENTS.


n,s.ues in the Human Organism to
NJ Projected Against MicrObe Poi
n.-Lonsesity Like an EIe-
phants.
From the New York World
D,u. Jan. 6.-Knowing that all the
.orld would be deeply interested in The
.r.sing experiments through which DR..
-. nl.fcbnikoff is preparing. with a Sc
-erums. TO greatly prolong human
~. correspondent to-day sought some
,.,,u.3 explanation thereof from the doc
~, himself. The result was that DR..
,,.t,5uikoff prepared and gave to his Wis
,..r tt.. following signed statement:
rbrolah some indiscretion the public has
I'm notified prematurely of the expert
mems and my staff of assistants I'M
,.r+ool, more than a year ago toward find
Inc and removing the causes of senile de
..v Public expectation seems TO have be
came .y excited that the reserve now
,,igbt do more harm than good.
We first discovered a means of prolong-
,r. life but we have found a road which,
--. think leads to a certain point, but
me- have not Travelled on it to the end, and
,t.r4 may be many unforeseen turns and
Obstacles.
Life in Man and Elephant.
HDman beings die too early-unnaturally
early.
In the animal kingdom the usual natu-
raj duration of life is approximately ten
times the period occupied In the process
of maturing. An elephant natures at 80
years of age and lives TO 300. Man. there
fore. should live to be 25O years old. Only
W. introduce into our system SO many
Ingredients which our organs were never
meant to cope with, and we live under
such abnormal conditions that our organ
ism always gives way, somewhere or 9th
Or long before that.
NObIer Tissues Need Protection.
Our organs are composed of two sorts
of tissues. One, which we will call the
coniunctiye or plebian tissue, supports
or enwraps the other, which may be term
eRthe noble element. By the noble ele-
meDts I mean the conglomeration of cells
Characteristic of the organ itself and act
ually performing its special functions
Now roughly speaking, what consti-
Weakening of the noble elements, either
by poisonous ingredients or microbes in
troduced variously into the system, or
simply by the encroachment of the more
vigorous plebeian cells.
This encroachment, technically known
as scaerosis, produces the atrophy of the
organ ard it is we'll known that when
ever one organ ceases to perform its duty
death ensues
Several Serums Needed.
Therefore, the remedy against senile
atrophy was to be sought in the shape of
scme serum which would reach the or
gan or organs menaced and feed and.
strengthen its noble elements sufficiently
to enable them to fight the poisons or mi
crobes or both, circulating in the system,
and resist the encroachment of the plebe-
ian tissue.
We shall probably always be unable to
rolong life by injecting a single serum,
just as now we are unable to operate on
the heart nerves, brain and bowels with
the same drug. 1t is not one serum we
seek but a series of them.
We have found that the organs can be
reached separately by injecting Nerums,
and in a general way, we are convinced
that We are on the right tract-as to what
must enter into the oomn%2ftion of these
" 'at. so '@;;;,,, ...,n.S-sN Ine nobler cells But
t4YNH'I9 AtdlS Will GldpSS OtLOiG, olCp
by step and after countless experiments,
We can al last announce we have some
t1ng as positive and as thoroughly tested
as fasteur's cure for hydrophobia for in
sanGe
Will Aid the Fittest to Survive.
our hope is to provide certain threaten
Cd cells with artificial aids, which will
make them fit to cope with their enemies
dlfins longer period.
very shortly we shall have the means
ana feel sufficiently advanced in our in
designations to conduct some prudent eX-
psHments upon human beings.
scientifically, the possibility of prolong
ing life is stablished-practicall
Knows when we shall discover it.
How the prolongation of human life so
III should last, mortally, say $50 years,
"oulq alter the whole scheme of the
"ofil! But to pursue that phase of the
subject one must leave the field of science
ana enter the realms of philosophical
se' llation and poetry, and l don't think
an od physician like myself can be called
upon to do that. Ellie Metchnikoff.