The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-12-21
old ACE MAY
Be DELAYED,
DOCTORS SAY
OUTDOOR EXERCISES WILL AID
IN MAKING LIFE
LONGER.

In an article in an outside paper
DR.. l.. X Hirshberg says:
If a parameCtum, typhoid bacll-
lus or malaria parasite can per
petuate itself forever, there is, as
Prof. Jennings has said, lesson TO
be learned from them. for the pre-
venton and treatment of approaching
dissolution in man. Prof. Woodruff,
Prof. Jennings. DR.. Alexis Carrel,
Prof. Metchnikoff. and others have
recently contributed valuable meth
DDS to the treatment of these well
known senile symptoms. These non
organic signs of old age may be
briefly recalled here:
Softened bones, loss of teeth.
bowed back, decreasing elasticity of
movement, stiffened muscles, rigid
arteries, lapses of memory for recent
events. speech troubles, requirement
of much sleep, many infantile signs
atrophies of skin, bone, hair and
finally bed sores and terminal pneu-
mOnia.
Among the least recent of many
new discoveries is Prof. MetChni-
koff's Tactic acid bacilli Bulgaricus)
treatment Based upon tn hypOthe-
sis that many decomposition products
of the intestinal tract age" the It's
sues before their time. these micro
organisms play the role of scaven-
gers of the digestive tube They are
harmless and may be used with inn
punity.
There is no doubt that inactivity
l,o I-f ,yC of no
living tissue machinery engenders
degenerative, toxic, senile changes.
The lack of muscular elasticity after
middle life breeds senile dissolution
Exercise. preferably out of doors,
certainly postpones what at present
seems to be the inevitable.
Brown-Sequard's elixir of life, the
hormones- the internal secretions
have been since named-have IA
tionale from the latest researches
forecasted 10 years ago by Sojous
in zoology and physiology. and un-
dreamed of by him. There is no
harm in treating the senile with
them.
DR.. Alexis Carols work has been
applied to the treatment of this type
Oh StIllllN NUS, W 'Oll9 ttlll L y
changing the pabulum of artificially
grown human tissues. he was able
to actually rejuvenate it, and change
as Mephistopheles did the old al
chemist into Faust-old degenerated
cells into young, blushing, youthful
ones.
Thus by moving a senile person
to a new. fresh dietetic environment,
constantly stimulating, gently and
carefully his nutrition and meta
bolism, much may be done for him.
Finally, proper treatment directed
toward atheromatous arteries, cal
cium deposits, and the various afro
phic alterations in the brain. heart,
kidneys, liver and other tissues
often considered non organic-must
receive treatment directed toward the
Improvement of their nourishment
and blood supply: Massage, fresh
air mild gymnastics and flushings
with milk, buttermilk, sour milk and
Bulgarian milk.
The discoveries of Jennings, Wood
ruff Mast and others that paramecia
never die except by accident. faulty
food infection or the accumulation
of their own waste matter should
also be put to practical use for
mankind.
If man is upon the point of
senile dissolution, flush him out,
change his diet. cure his hidden and
lesser infections, rid him of all minor
accidents and above all else keep
him active.
Cholestern, which has been just
found to be stimulated to overpro-
duction by alcohol, tobacco. caffeine
and many other things, which is in
part responsible for senile atheroma
and arterio- sclerosis, must also be
reduced and checked.