The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-23
Announcement Made by Or. A.
D. Houghton Of Chicago.
EVOLVED PROT0PLASMIC CELL.
Lacks Only One Thing 10 Be a Cna.
for, and That Is a Reproductive Agent
PruteIds and Engines.

Chicago, Dec. 23--There is professor
of medicine who has recently been de-
| posed from the Hahemann medical fac
rlty who asserts that he can produce
life by mineral jugglery. lie is DR.. a ID.
Houghton, who is young, looks like stu
dent and. like Andrew Lang, is wrapped
| up In crystals
Lang sees things in crystals. but
! iIoughton, following other Investigators,
! for he is not original, develops lfe-so
| he says.
'I started I'm this work by studying the
| formation OF crystals. l found that by
retardins the crystaliza tion Of a solution
i could form almost anything. l succeed
ed I'm this way IN forming a shell OF
microscopic size. Then thought j IN ght
be able TO place life in this shell Along
in the early part Of last century AuVier
thought he had demonstrated that life was
spontaneous, but later Tyndall exploded
this idea, and said that from nothing
nothing could be produced. Now, / am
not working along the same lines hereto
fore followed in the attempts TO produce
life from dead material.
ONLY ONE STEP TO CREATION.
"I assumed that If the essential COM
ponents of protopiasm were worked upon
hy some force they would form a cell
containing life. In this have proved my
self TO be correct, but j have not been
able TO make these cells reproductive
When ] do that, and / will, L will have
solved the problem OF creation
"1o make my method simple, suppose
l took n portion OF protoplasm from the
human body and allowed IL 20 rot SO that
none OF the protopasmic form remained
lta llcin % .hn
compounds were present. had then
simply the chemical components OF proto-
plasm as though i had poured so many
chemicals from so many bottles.
by placing them I'm this solution of
disintregated protoplasm a motive agent
such as an enzyme. which is not lv-
ing agent like yeast, but OF the nature OF
pepsin, / cause the chemicals which for
merly made up the plotoplasm again TO
seek their protoplasmic form and thus
create a living cell of protoplasm. This /
have done repeatedly.
81 have not as yet been able to make
these cells reproduce their kind. but DR.
Loeb has succeeded in impregnating cells
hy chemical action, and If this scheme
is once applied TO my chemically produced
cells / Will be able TO make animals To
order.
Professor Butschli of Berlin. and Pro-
fessor Loeb. OF the Chicago university,
nave utNtlOptu All except
"Do you mind telling what material
what chemical substance, YOU operate
urunY
FORMULA. PRoTIEDs AND ENzYME
Certainly; upon solution of protieds
in celloid, gelatine etc, i'm the presence
of an engine. Proteids are the albu-
minous constituents or organisms like
the white OF an egg. Engine is sub
stance which makes fermentation. but
which has no organized form OF it's own.
Yeast is a ferment but not an engine.
and pepsin is an engine but not a
yeast"
The reslgtrar OF Hahnemann college,
Henry w. Wilson maintains that DIR.
Houghton was dismissed because he
failed TO use proper language TO DR. How
ard Chisler. professor OF surgery.
DIR. Houghton is an Englshman lie !
came TO America II years ago He has !
no degree, but has passed such satisfac- |
tory examinations that he has not only a |
license Co practise but has had an invita- |
ton TO join the faculty OF the University |
az Illinois Medical school. He entered /
Iiahnemann college at the request OF the |
fat Ulty.