Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-28

on constantly. the effect is at last no
ticed In the progressive atrophy of the
organ. 1t is followed by graver disor-
ders. until the end is reached-paraly-
Sis"
But, doctor" some one asked. what
is the real business OF these cannibal
cells?'
1.-The ought to eat up the dead cells
only"
And your discovery?',
us to confine them to their busf-
ness!" was his smiling answer.
Yes" exclaimed DR.. fIcchnikoff. II
am undertaking. with my assistants
and pupils, to struggle with these mi
crophages. to come to the aid of the
noblcr cells, and thus arrest or pre-
vent all possible atrophies-that is TO
say, hold back decepitude and fix I'M
aging youth"
His eyes burned with q holy enthu-
siasm, his face flushed with the nil
raculous hope, and despite his earlier
warnings not to look for earthly i'm
mortality, it was easy to imagine that
such immortality had risen before his
mind
BY a SERIES OF vACCINS.
How shall we do this?" he repeated.
why. always by the methods of the
Pasteur Institute. BY series of vac
Gins. You know how NJ. Bordet. inject
ing the blood OF u rabbit into a guinea
pig and then injecting feeble solutions
OF the guinea pigs blood into other
rabbits. hit OH the specific serum for
the red globulcs OF the blood? 1t was
the starting point of the whole discov-
cry. We'll, the nerve cells, the cells of
the liver. of the kidneys. of the blood
and all the others become subject to
the incessant attacks OF the microp-
hayes. or plebeian cells. We have set
out our whole section of work hunting
the scrums which will put them in a
state to defend themselves, as has been
done for the red globules by the in
iected guinea pigs blood. The specific
kidney serum was found some days
ago. NJ I3ordet has also made a dis
covery which enables us to prepare
serums which AFFECT only one category
OF cells, without touching the others.
Thus the kidney serum will affect only
the kidneys, the blood serum only the
blood, and so on.
I've can, then, by injections, rein
force the energies of the attacked ele-
ments The eternal struggle OF the
nfcroDhages against the microbes will
continue, and as long as the man whose
body makes their battlefelds takes care
not risk accident, he will always
triumph over disease. The eternal
=sti.nGGle- hetMeen= the nlebeians= and the
noble cells will also so on, only, thanks
to our serums, the cannibals will not
triumph In q word, no more atrophies.
Therefore an indefinite prolongation of
youth. until the day, when, tired of
having. lived so long, having accom-
niished all our tasks, we feel awaken
ing in us the desire, The real, the good
the true desire, to sleep forever the
sleep of the earth
a SOLEMN SCENE.
AS the master spoke these last solemn
words his countenancc Illuminated with
the vision he could see so plainly. while
we saw only its shadows, we perceived
that the library room had been filling
un. y dozen or more students had been
stealthily finding places. The very SER
wants OF the institute, with the familiar-
ity of trusted subordinates in France
had ventured in and hung about the
doorway. The early winter night had
already fallen. and the red light danced
and hickered in the open CRATE. 1t III
up the students faces-young faces. fill
ed with noble ardor. And then one Of
our number broke the silence that had
fallen on us with the last words oP tbo
great man.
"And SO II is really in the near flu
tnre, life prolonged. old age held back
decrepitude vanquished?"
II hope it," slowly pronounced Pro-
fessor Mechnikoff. and. to tell all the
truth, these experiences commence to
leave the domain of theory already A
physician in Paris-and am really for
hidden to name him-has made certain
therapeutical application of our discov-
cries He finds himself doing we'll with
them"