The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-12-26
TO LENGHTEN OUR EXISTENCE.


civilized countries from under 30 to
over A. Roughly speaking, every
body lives nowadays half as long
again as If they had existed some
centuries ago. Why. a great many
scientists are speaking, should this
process not be hurried on?
The great improvement during the
last few centuries has been due to
the lettering of sanitary conditions
and to the advance of medical science
generally. But many Investigators
are trying to find something more
speedy.
The great authority on this subject
is the famous Prof. Metchnikoh, who
declares that there is no reason why
the average length Of life could not
be nearer 200 years than one.
His theory-and it is generally &C.
cepted-is that the general decay
which is called old age is due to the
gradual collection Of microbes on the
large intestine. They collect on this
tube owing to the putrefying Of par
ticles Of food. and spread their poison
gradually till they cause general de-
cay.
Experiments have grown that vege-
tables rich in sugar, such as dates,
heetrO0t, carrots, etc, produce none
of these poisonous microbes. His idea.
therefore, is to form sugar-prOduc-
ing center in the important tube.
But. as sugar consumed in the ordin-
airy way all gets absorbed before
RI aching the spot, he has decided to
form 1t by means of micrObe.
II this microbe can be firmly es-
tahlished in the human body the
problem of adding century or SO
to the average life is solved. Lee
turing before a learned body in Paris
q short time ago he announced that,
after experimenting on human beings
with this microbe which he had OBJ
! tanned from the intestines of dog,
he had found that the poisOns which
in time bring on old age had ceased
to form
Another cure for old age can be
bought over a chemists counter, dis
guised in the pleasant form of chloe
O,ates. 1t is based on the SAME great
scientists discovery that Tactic acid,
such as is produced by sour milk,
prevents the poisonous microbes from
collecting. 1t has been noticed that
those races which live largely on sour
milk are very long-lived. There are
reasons for believing that some Of the
Arabs of the Saraha, who live chiefly
On sour camel's milk, reach the age
o: 200 and upward. And the inhab'-
tants of Bulgaria. where centcnariang
are nearly as common as six-fOOt
men, live largely on a preparation of
sour milk, known as "yaKourth. 1t
Is the bacillus of "yahOurth" that NJ.
Massol, the French scientist, has in
cOrpOrated in the sweets known as
'massolettes. What Is known as
Tactic cheese is also on sale In En-
gland with the same purpose. In
the early part Of the Bible sour milk
is often mentioned in connection
with the patriarchs, who lived for
hundreds Of years.
A Bulgarian scientist, DR.. Tranjen.
Is working on different lines Certain
diseases are treated nowadays by in
jecting into the blood of the sufferer
substance obtained from the bloc,
of an animal which has succeeded in
shaking off that disease. The reason
is that this blood must have develop
ed sort of antidOte ian anti-toxinl
that has killed the diseases poison
Tor toxin).
Another school of scientists relies
on radium and similar rays. 1t has
been found that, II radium rays shine
on the larvae 1.-THE young) Of meal
worms, it delays their growth and
decay. A meal-worm under radium
outlives several generations not un-
der radium. II some similar treat
ment could be successfully applied
to man, human being would be still
. child at 80, and have = comfortable
middle age lasting over 30 years.
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