The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
Famous BaCterioIogiSt Passes
Away in the City Of Paris,
France.

7 Professor Ellie Metchnikoff was
vorld-ramed as an exponent OF the
cries for the prolongation of human
lie He was most popularity known
ne the great advocate Of the sour
milk cure" for old age, believing that
the principal agent in senile decay
WAS the continuous auto-intoxicatlon
of the body through the putereiacuoni
of matter in the large intestlnes anu
4bat the bacteria which cause the
nntrefaction could be effectively com
hated by preparations Of milk sour
cd by cultures OF selected tactic bacll-
IL Later Prof. Metchikoff went so
Fnr as 10 declare that the large inteS-
fine was as useless in the human
bodv as is the appendix and prophe-
sled that the day would come wnle Il
n would be commonplace operation
to remove it,
Finds New MiCrObc.
ue was the dlscovcrer in lOl2 OF
y now nicrobe which he called the
"cIvcobacteria" in the inteDstlnes oil
dog and in a paper before the
French Academy OF Science he an
nnnnced his belief that the inocula-
tion of the large intestine in human
beings with this germ would 30 sun
further than the sour milk treat
mont toward the prevention Of senlle
docrepitude. The "glycobacteria' II
was explained, were sugar bacilil Of
which the large intestine stood IN
need because the sugar that was OF
dlnarilv taken into the body mad al
ready been digested and absorbed by
the blood before it had reached inc
large intestinal tract.
OF this discovery, Prof. Metchhi.
koff himself said "In the course Of
nv recent researches | found that
there exists in the large intestine ol
human beings n certain quantity Oh
noisonous substances, which are
called indols and phenols and when
have been proved responsible Tor inc
gradual decay Of the system, known
as old age, These can be destroyed
only bv sugar. but in the ordinary
way any sugar or sugary substance"
taken into the system are digesteI
long before they can reach that tar'
This applies to some extent 10 the
Tactic acid treatment which | have
advocated for some time past. the
problem has been, therefore, to dis
cover some means of producing sugar
within the colon by some means after
digestion. and my present claim IS
that | have found a sugar-produclns
microbe. which l call glycobacterla
and which is only to be found in the
intestines Of the dog. II may be OBJ
objected that dogs are not especially
long-lived. My answer to this is that
the dog IL a CarnivOrous animal ana
1t is proved beyond doubt that am
NAL foodprcduces the largest quantity
pH these poisonous substances which
1t is our aim to distroy Should ii
be possible to give the dog large
uuantity of vegetables, he would un-
doubtedly be immune from a great
many diseases which are now caused
by the presence in his intestines OF
poisonous irdols and phenols.
Experiments on Self.
In the course of his study, Prof.
Metchnikoff experimental upon him
self TO some extent as well as upon
animals. and it is said that he inocu-
lated himself with the new "glyco-
bacteria" His theory as to the sour
milk treatment may be traced in part
to the environment OF his youth He
was Russian, born at Kharkon,
NAV Il, 1915. In that region and
particularly in neighboring Bulgaria
q surprisingly large portion Of the
Inhabitants live TO be centenarians,
and Metchnikoff believed that their
longevity was due largely to the fact
that their diet included the bacili
of sour milk.
Following his education at khar-
koff. Metcbnikoit studied at Giessen
and Munich. and in 1870 he was ap-
pointed professor of zoology at Odes-
ga. He held this post until 1882
when he resigned to devote himself
10 private researches into the anat-
omy of invertebrates II was while
working al lowly organized forms OF
life such rs sponges that he first
made the observations which con-
stitvted the basis OF all his subse-
Guent work. In 1855 he had at
tractpd the notice Of Louis Pasteur,
the founder OF the famous Pasteur
Institute for the treatment of rabies
in Paris, and he was invited TO be
come one Of Pasteurs associates. In
1895 he succeeded as the director OF
the institute, a post which he held 10
the time Of his death.
old Age Possible.
In his study of longevity, Profess
sor Metchnikoff came to the belief
that it should not be uncommon for
people 10 live TO the age Of $50 years
He found every Indication that the
human mechanism was calculated to
last far longer than 1t actually does
His research showed among other
things that animals which had no
large intes,iues lived TO an advanced
age, particularly birds. which pre-
serve their youthful agility and spry-
ness to the end of their long span
In the case oil human beings he found
tfat even among those whose SUE
ferings We're terrible. there We're few
who wanted TO be- upt out OF their
agony h. death. They all wanted "a
live. This, said Metchnikoff. shows
that death between the ages of Ga
and so should be is not natural. 1t
should not occur so soon There is
some cause for H. which should be
discovered and remedieG " II the
normal specific longevity we're at.
tanned by human beings he believed
the old and DEGENERATE individuals