The New York herald., 1921-03-06
T0LIVEL0NG.L0CK
YOURSELF DAILY IN
YOUR ICE CHEST
French Biologist Can See
No Bar to Abolishing
Death i'm Humans.
HE CITES LOWER ANIMALS
Plan Is to Modify From Time
to Time Interior Conditions
of individuals.
Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HEEALn.
1871 BIZ THE NrW YORK HERALD.

Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HErALn.
Copyright, 1891, By THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Paris, March 8.
II you want to live to ripe old ago
spend your spare hours in refrigera-
tor, according to Castor d'Auville,
noted French biologist, who has joined
men like Metchnikoff, Bakmethieff and
Jacques Loeb in the theory that there
is no reason why the phenomenon Of
death cannot be abolished In humans
just as in cases Of lower animals like
the sea urchins and certain fish that
have been frozen stiff but still con-
serve or renew their vitality when
brought back to normal temperatures.
NJ. dAuville insists that immortality
is not an idle dream. At least in his
opinion it is probable that the next
generation Of scientists viii solve the
problem sufficiently to allow ordinary
mortals to reach the age 70 Methu-
selah before senility sets In.
investigators like Maupas," said N.
d'Auville, discovered plant life and
animal life which continued indefinitely
by a system OF cellular separation, the
cells rejoining when age set in and re-
turning the system to normal conditions.
thus starting life all over. This indi-
Gated clearly that death is not, as be-
lieved by earlier scientists the natural
reverse, Of life. Loeb's American exper-
Iments, which were criticised by many
extended the idea Fragments of vital
organs and tissues were made to live
indefinitely by Russian experimenters
during the war; who obtained 1000 gen
diminishing the vital power OF the orig
inal These results were obtained by
constantly changing the ordinary envi-
ronment OF the subjects"
How the Plan IL Reasoned.
M. d'Auyilles reasoning can be sum-
married. thus: If the lower animals con-
tinue to live under varying temperatures
and nourishmcnts human life will even
tually respond to the same treatment.
"It Is only necessary" he says, 'to mod
ify from time to time. but methodically.
the interior condition of the individuals"
He insists in supplementing the theory
by the assertion that human bodies can
be frozen without serious danger He
has not yet found candidates for such
experiments, but he is confident that
frozen men can be revived Just as
Bakmethieff restored the life Of wombats
an Australian nocturnal phascolomyoid
marsupial resembling small bear),
which had been subjected for several
days to temperatures OF twenty degrees
below zero. Loeb conducted similar ex-
periments In America few years ago
and succeeded In prolonging life In GER
tain larvae to the thousandth generation
1T Is only natural" says NJ. d'Auville
that IL the came scientific principles are
applied by biologists they will eventual
ly prolong human life hundredfold.
But NJ. d'Auville is needing the warning
OF NJ. Metchnlkoff. who drank his own
elixir for eighteen years, but died at the
age OF 10, and so he has not yet volun-
teered to submit his own body to the
freezing process to exceed the normal
span of life.
His theory is none the less interesting.
however, as IL Is significant OF the deep
interest French scientists are taking In
the problem of the extension OF human
life VI. Voronoff. leader in this school
is understood to have performed four IN
testinal gland graftings from monkeys
In the last year. One patient at his lao-
oratory. which is near tho centre OF
Paris. Is said to be a member OF an
aristocratic British family. who, al
though 20 years old. is now said 70
possess all the agility and mentality or
a man OF half his age.
But there IS another school. when -
based on the theory that humans eat
entirely too much. BY converse logic
they say the secret of eternal HE ~
TO be found in complete abstenton
from food during long periods despite
the fate OF the Lord Mayor OF CORK
and others who have tried hunger
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