Evening journal., 1919-10-25
BY HUDSON MAXIM.
N0led Inventor and seIenLIsl.

Assuming the success Of DR.. Serge
, Noronons experiments. II certainly
would be Of vast Importance to the
world If intellectual giants like Oar
b win Spencer, Haeckel. Edison could be
rejuvenated. Herbert Spencer, for the
last ten or fifteen years OF his life,
was seriously affected by the encroach-
Inents OF senile decay, and his great
work, "The Unification OF knowledge, -
was arrested before he had quite COM
pleled 10.
II Spencer could have had some new
glands substituted for old ones. for ex-
ample, new pituitary and thyroid
glands, new adrenals and new inter
slitial glands he would without doubt
have been greatly reiuvenaied, and
have been able to give the world the
benefit OF vast amount Of knowledge
which he was unable TO do.
Although the aged ought to die as a
duty 10 the young. 70 give the young
ones a chance. still. as in the case Of
Herbert Spencer, a few added years Of
rejuyenated and invigOrated life would
have enabled such an intellectual CO.
l0ssus as he TO round out his life work
for the benefit OF all coming genera
lions.
The worlds intellectual giants have
VIGOROUSLY been men possessed OF re-
markablc virility in exactly the respect
in which Doctor NOrOnOff hopes to en-
graft viriliiy. Also. those who have
lived 10 extreme old age have been men
similarly endowed.
Thomas Parr, who lived to be a hun
dred and flfty-twO years OF age, and
might have lived longer had ne not been
. invited 20 the court Of Charles II OF
England. where he died OF over-eating.
was a man possessed Of most eXcep-
ii0nal amatOry powers. Old Parr |
married when over a hundred and |
twenty.
Petraz Czarten, an Austrian, lived 20 /
be a hundred and elght-flve years OF /
age. and when nc died IN t52i. he left /
% son Of nlneiy-flve The father was /
therefore ninety when the son was /
born, and continued to live for another /
nIneiy-ilve years.
70 is no new knowledge that certain
glands. Ike the adrenals. pituitary 1
body. the thyroid and the interstltial
Glands, perform indispensably import
ant functions IN preventing one from
catching infectious diseases. In curing
diseases, and in eliminating polsons
rom the bOdy(
70 Is a well-knOwn fact that the pos
session Of strong and healthy inter
.sttial glands endOws one with vigOr.
and defers old age. No better proof Is
needed than the notorious fact that
cunuchs are premateurly old An cum
rtah of "a frfrv fr ~ old a. fho uorrnaf
man at sixty.
70 IS a most rational assumption that
30 may he possible 10 accomplish all
that Doctor Voron0ff claims 10 have ac-
cOmplished. and Doctor VorOnOff should
have the encouragement and support of
the scientific world.
n one could be endowed with per-
petual youthful vigor, he would like
wise naturally be endowed with a de-
sire 10 live perpetually, but such Is
not possible. While the engrafting Of
WALKING glands may give certain re-
iuvenation. the old can not be made
Young without renewing all the organs
NJ the body, for life. as Herbert spen-
rer has said, Is a continual adjustment
between internal and external relations
lnd the process OF life Is one whose
md is necessarily death. There are or
-lns Of the body which can not be re-
lewed, and although they might be re-
iyed and strengthened somewhat by
he replacement OF certain other or
llns or glands it would be only for a
lrief period. Death Is Inevitable. and
hough life and vigor may be prolonged,
my such result can at best be but tenn
l0r3ry.
Even with this rather pessimlstlc
I slill believe that
Doctor Vorono1rs discovery Is likely 10
le one OF the most important ever
made In medical science.