The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-30
TO pRoLoNG HUMAN LIFE.
Micolysine Is Reported to Have That
Agency.

The scientific world in France Is now
in state Of agitation and Of contro-
yersy over the announcement recently
made by DR.. Eugene Louis Doyen, a
famous physician and surgeon, that be
has produced a therapeutic agent which
he calls micolysine and which he asserts
viii greatly prolong human life and
revolutionize tae practice Of medicine.
This discovery is the result Of ten years
Of study in which he has applied the
theories Of Professor Ellie Mechnikof,
the venerable head Of the Pasteur insti-
tute, to the creation Of new pharma.
copeia
1T is feasible said Professor Mschni-
koG, with his habitual caution. when
questioned concerning Dr. Doyen's dis
coyery. "But I can scarcely permit my
self to hope that we have reached this
point 30 soon 1t Is devious path we
have been pursuing, and while ! am con-
ident Of ultimate success must refrain
from expressing an exact opinion until
the data Of experiments are more nearly
complete
Dr. Doyen himself Is unreservedly en-
thusastic He declares that he and has
assistant have observed the curative e..
feets OF miclysine in hundreds Of cases,
and that among his own. patients are
many prominent men who have been
cured Of long standing disease and who
now use micolysine as a preventive.
Il cannot yet consent" said Dr. Doy-
en- ito make public the process Of manu-
tacture Of micolysine, OF 70 reveal its
chemical composition. Some Of the com
pouent parts are very rare, and the
compromising Of tho substance Is deli
cate process requiring the close atten-
ton Of one thoroughly familiar with
the subject, and in touch with the
studies that have occupied me for many
years. I will however, explain some.
thing Of The character Of my researches
and discoveries
1T has been well established that in
an organism rendered immune against
disease the white globules 81 the blood,
the phatgoeytes, are the protectors Of
the organism against the microbes. It.
has been my hope, not merely to in
crease the number and strength Of these
geobUles TO resist certain attacks Of
deadly microbes, but to render them
permanently, Or at any rate for long
periods, capable Of carrying on their
protective tasks TO produce this by
perhagocytose, or state Of immunity, /
sought a substance contained IN the nat.
mal ferments ! had long investigated
the lamentations Of alcohol such as are
found in wine and beer as well as those
in the putrefaction Of butter, and the
fats Of meat and cheese. Micolysine
is composed Of colloids. These are Jelly
like substances which are not really sol,
ubIe, but which remain suspended in
liquids in infnitesimal particles, They
are extracted from some Of the fer
ments Of which | have spoken, but are
obtained by such processes as make their
manufacture for therapeutic purposes
at present very difficult. They have the
power to destroy microbes, and when
introduced into the organism they slim.
ulate and assist the phatgooytes, which
are accustomed largely to disappear
when their immediate work is done BY
the absorption Of micolysine into the
human system not only as cure but
as a preventive it il possible to ward
of maladies, to stimulate the phagocyte
in times Of danger and to condition the
body at any moment to sustain the at.
tacks chat are constantly aimed at it
BY thousands Of enemies of human life
that infinitely infest the air, and wa
tor and the food that nourishes US
From search for Elixir Of Life" in
August Technical World Magazine.