The New York herald., 1921-10-14
.RADIUM TO EXTEND
LIFE TO 100 YEARS
So Predicts DR.. C. Everett
Field, Director of Institute
in West 10th Street.
SUCCESS SEEN IN TESTS
Radioactive Treatment AL
ready Adds Full Decade to
the Human Span.
SUCCESS SEEN IN TESTS

The generation of New Workers born
twenty-five years hence may conf
IDENTIFY look forward to enjoying a
century or more of life. If experiments
now being conducted in the use Of
radium bear full fruit. II was pre-
dicted yesterday by DR.. G. Everett
Field, director OF the Radium Jnsti-
tute. at 2o5 West Seventieth street.
Work which is being done along
various lines by the Rockefeller Insti-
.tute. as well as a fuller development
Of the rejuvenating powers Of radiun1,
will increase the span Of human life
materially. and think most scientific
men are agreed on this" said DR..
Field yesterday In discussing state
-ments regarding the possibilities OF
radium treatment made by DR.. f.
Stillman Bailey Of Chicago before the
therapeutists In convention there. ut
has often been said that a man Is only
as old as his arteries. I believe that
twenty-five years from now human
life may easily be extended to 100
years.
For the last ten or fifteen years II
has been noted that radium has the
power to cause the reabsorption OF the
salts which tend to deposit in people OF
advancing age and cause arterioscler-
osis The radium brings the salts back
into the blood and II has been used ef-
fectively for this purpose at German and
Austrian spas for ten years. We have
been administering It for arteriosclerosis,
as we'll as various other diseases. since
1914, but we have found that the low
dosage mentioned by DR.. Bailey is not
as effective as injection INTO she veins
Exhaustive tests have shown its power
Ia developed by the latter method upon
much greater scale.
"But even In its tiniest forms radum
is serviceabfe In Iengthenins human life
Twenty-Five of the 140 spfings at Sars-
toga are radioactive and for centuries
the Indians brought their old chiefs and
warriors there for treatment. The curi.
tive results of the springs for rneuni-
tism and diseases OF old age were long
ago noted. The same things is true cf
the hot springs I'm Arkansas and Cole
RADIO and most Of the European spas. If
radium is administered In sugar coated
pellets through the mouth. instead of In
tected into the veins. better results can
be obtained by concentrating the dosage
"A series Of tests on both animals and
human beings has developed that the
therapeutic effects of radium. adminis-
tered intravenously can be traced for
period OF twelve weeks. IL Is probably
possible TO trace the effects OF radum
pills for three or four days. For case
OF rheumatism a low dosage may be
good. but when a patient is brought In
on a stre.cher he needs an enormous
amount of radio active energy.
"Radium, OF course. Is not drug but
a physical agency. II develops alpha.
beta and gamma rays, which give every
tissue of the body the stimulus Of explo-
siyo electrical bombardmcnts---a sort OF
internal massage, as II were---which
bring the bodily secretions back 20 nor
NAL. l have seen the memory, digestive
movers and general strength OF patients
eighty years old improve wonderfully
through the intravenous administration
Of radlum
Hardening of tho arteries Is checked
because the salts arc redistributed.
Bright's disease is prevented through
the same process. All OF ones organs
are stimulated. Already radium treat
ment can. In many instances, add full
decade to the lives OF the men and
women of to-day"