The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21
1he SOCIAL WORLD
 an0 WOMAN'S DOMAIN

On the first day of the present year. pr.
 Loeb startled the learned as well as
 the man on the street." with the account
 of his experiments in physical life, with
 the idea of temporary arrest of death
 and prolongation of life. A year before
 he had demonstrated the artificial pro-
 duction of living creatures Of very low
 order by fertilizing, through chemical
 agency, the eggs of sea-urchtns and de-
 veloplng them in proper solutions to ma
 turity. A surgeon, physician, chemist and
 physioIogist, his eyes see more than ours
 could when he watches the empty cat
 erpillar crawl to the outermost limits or
 the topmost branch towards the light.
 the moth fly towards the flame it's course
 defiected by heat to a continuing circle,
 and nightbirds beating their wings against
 lighthouses out at sea. He did not take
 an accidentally split dog. as one poll
 tician said another did, and mismatch bi-
 sected head and tail, putting him together
 so that he ran both ways and parked at
 both ends and was always a backbiter.-
 but, he did experiment by grating or gans in unnatural places, setting a mouth in the middle of an animal which he had cut in two so that it nourished itself with two mouths Gas a school-boy would like to do at Thanksgiving or Christmas, though he'd have twice as
 much on his conscience), and he inserted a mammary gland on the ear of guinea pig, finding the gland secrete normally when the litter was born. In his labora- tory the beheaded jelly-fish whose rhyth-
 mical contractions had stopped, began again those rythmical contractions when he immersed it in a solution of salt, and
 he played with an excised heart (not
 like the lady-killer who plays with an ~td a,,1 lad fraa ralxo nj Q
 its beat by immersion in this solution, de-
 creasing and increasing lifes rythm by altering the strength of the solution-for. salt in water makes the water conductive of electricity-and intimate is the asso-
 citation of electricity with vitality identi- fable with it, to the wise men from that East whence knowledge comes. Dr. Loeb tells wonderful things of our body "a human dynamo-to which poisonous foods furnish force for infiicting the elec- tric discharge which brings dissolution or | death to the enclosing structure. He
 speaks of a death process as well as 8 life process, and the reversfbility of lifes processes, and the possibility of holding | in partial suspense the death process and | so prolonging life. He has not solved 1 the secret of eternal life for the human body, nor of putting off forever the evil days of wrinkles and decreptitude when those who love us find no pleasure in us 1 unless our souls are sound and sweet. He tells us about our nerves being highly phosphorized fats in a weak salt solution, | and why chloroform. alcohol. etc., have certain effects through the encompassing solution to deaden or impair the sensa- tions, and how vegetable oils feed fat the power to think and to feel. I'd like to
 know "on what meat hath this our teach Ia- fAA hal HA L.. T | agine that what has resulted in Dr. Loeb brain, nerve and all that gives the
 world assurance of man "commenced
 to enter hunnanitys structure in far back, sweet-souled mother whose like we may or may not see again-the food atoms and clements which built up what | led in after generations to the light he sheds on the world today, was perhaps | contemporaneous with the vegetation | whose transmutation into coal furnishes | the force which drives the engines with transporting power to make possible the present stupendous commerce, and to H.
 lumine the great cities of the world as their denizens enter the portals of the twentieth century.
 Sometimes the physiologist says that | life is a series of lamentations. Pas teur found and revealed the intimate re-
 lations of life and Fermentation and he
 thought that the vital action was pro-
 duct of living things; but, BucBner took Pasteur's yeast cells, crushed fhem, un- l der enormous pressure. and the resultant ! sap or liquor produced fermentive action chemically. In germinating grain had been already discovered a substance that
 split up starch Something like laughter I%splits up stiff dignity or glazed ignor-
 ance or rigid dogmatic knowledge to wake
 up something better which comes up if
 there's any depth of soil there.) In the | saliva of the mouth a little later was l found a substance with the same prop
 erty; still later pepsin in the stomach
 which acts on msat, eggs and similar | foods: and, later, in the bile, was found
 another whose work makes an emulsion | of the fat foods; the pancreas manu- | factures another as do the walls of the intestines-all have the common property | or power to split up or digest substances | out of all proportion to their own mass.
 These substances closely resemble the | lamentations of yeast microbes, and they | were called solubles or formless ferments
 as distinguished from or opposed to or ganized bacteria or fungi Buckner dis closed their identity in the possession of | the principles of ferments. Next a Frenchman. Gabriel Bertrand, discovered | that one condition for the taking up of
 oxygen by the lungs was the presence
 of a specific substance, ferment, which | could be destroyed by heat or by vari-
 ous acids or poisons or rendered inactive | by ether and anaesthetics. He named 1t | Oxydase-and by that name permit me | to introduce it to you--though I wouldn't t
 know 1t myself if I were to meet it in | the road going home after all this pre- | tense of acquaintance with 1t here. 1 have but a speaking acquaintance with it
 and Oxydase would have to speak first. There are ferments in properly fed per son which contribute to cell develop
 ment, and ferments which destroy it or | arrest it-the action of these last is called
 growing old.
 In conclusion let me say that G. Stan
 ley Hall delivered an eloquent address
 at the Jubilee of the Y. NJ. c. A. on
 more attractive identity than I have yet
 mentioned-the identity of healthlness and
 holiness. God has put the right food in
 the world and enough of it for all of us:
 we must see to 1t that our children have
 their proper shares and bring them up to
 yield to others their rightful shares.
 That every man in the world was once
 some woman's plastic child is a truth
 of which we women seem to have only