Arizona republican., 1916-07-17
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 Professor Ellie Metchnikoff was world famous as an exponent of theor- ies for the prolongation of human life. He was most popularly known as the great advocate Of the sour milk cure for old age, believing that the princi- pal agent in senile decay was the con- tinuous utointoxication of the body through the putrefaction of matter in the large intestine and that the bac- terra which cause such putrefaction could be effectively combatted by preparations of milk soured by cultures of selected tactic acid bacilli. Later Prof. Metchnikoff went so far as to de- clare that the large intestine was as useless in the human body as is the appendix, and prophesied that the day would come when it would be a com monplace operation to remove it
 He was the discoverer in 1912 of d new microbe which he called the "elyeobacteria," in the intestines of d dog and in d paper before the French Academy of Sciences he announced his belief that the inoculation of the large intestine in human beings with this germ would go still further than the sour milk treatment toward the preven- 'Ion of senile decrepitude. The "gIy- cobacteria" it was explained, were su- gar bacilli of which the large intestine stood in need because the sugar that was ordinarily taken into the body had 1 already been digested and absorbed by ! the blood before it had reached the large intestinal tract
 Of this discovery. Prof. Metchni- . koff himself said: "In the course of my recent researches found that there exists in the large intestine of human beings certain quantity of poisonous substances. which are called indols and phenols, and which have been 1 proved responsible for the gradual de- ' cay of the system, known as old age. , These can ne destroyed only bv sugar l but in the ordinary way any sugar or l sugary substances taken into the svs- ! lem are dlgested long before they can reach that far. This applies to some extent to the tactic acid treatment
 
 past. The problem has been there lore, io discover some means of pro ducins sugar within the colon by sornt means after digestion, and my present claim is that l have found d sugar. producing microbe, which l call 'gIy. cobactera and which is only to h. found in the intestines of the dog. I may be objected that dogs are no specially long lived. My answer [, this IS that the dog is carnivoroui animal and it k proved beyond doub that animal food produces the larees , quantity of these poisonous substance
 which Il is our aim to destroy. Shoul, , II be possible to give the dog a larg , quantity of vegetables, he would un ; doubtedly be immune from grea many diseases which are now cause ny the presence in his intestines c l. poisonous indols and phenols' In the course of his studies. Pro
 Metchnlkoff experimented upon him
 self to some extent as well as upo
 animals. and 1t is said that he inocr
 lated himself with the new "glyco Q bacteria His theory as to the sou Q milk treatment may be traced in pai n to the environment of his youth Fl Q was Russian. born at Kharkoff. Ma - lo. lSl5. In that region and particular | ly in neiShborng Bulgaria. a surpris | ingly large portion of the inhabita mi . live to he centenar.ans and Metcf
 nikoff believed that their longevity wa
 due largely to the fact that the 1T diet included the bacilli of sour mil
 Following his education at Khark of n Metchnikoff studied at Giessen an Munich, and in 1870 he was appointe '' professor of zoology at Odessa. F held this post until 1882 when he r,
 signed to devote himself to private r,
 searches into the anatomy of invert, :, brates. IL was while working a low
 organized forms of life such as spong.
 that he first made the observation . which constituted the basis of all h a subsequent work. In 1888 he had a " tracted the notice of Louis Pasteu d the founder of the famous Pasteur II it stitute for the treatment of rabies
 
 L. one of Pasteurs associates. In IS
 he succeeded as the director of the il IT. stitute. post which he. held to il ct time of his death.
 " In his study of longevity, Pr, ID Metchnikoff came to the belief that IT should not be uncommon for people ,7 live to the age of l50 years. He foul
 every indication that the hum mechanism was calculated to last f ia longer than it actually does His r e searches showed among other thin re that animals which had no large
 testines lived to an advanced age, pa r- ticularly birds. which preserve tn, DE youthful agility and spryness to the e a Of their long span In the case of h he man beings he found that even an.e he those whose sufferings were terrib he ------------ - -
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