Evening star., 1922-11-05
BY STERLING HEtLIG.

pels. You do not think that
u one would call 1t greater?
All. no. But really. the time seems
come to tell the world to prepare
for heightened human life!
In Paris, last week, DR.. voronoff
displayed rejuvenated septuagenaF-
ians and octogenarians at the lab
oratory of experimental surgery of
the College of France. From various
parts of Europe the Russian savant
had made an effort to gather together
all the old men. his patients, claimed
to have been made younger by his
ehimpanzee gland operation. Lead
ing surgeons of France. England and
a few from America saw such as ar
rived in Paris in flesh and blood,
heard their stories OF youthfulness
restored and inspected photographs
and medical records made before the
operations
This is not a Voronoff story. 1t
goes far beyond Voronoff, because for
one reason Gas l am told. and there
is no reason In the world to criticize
him for ~ DR.. Serge Voronoff prob
ably chooses his subjects. or did
choose those at the beginning who
turned out to be sensational. old
men of fine physical state without
ldegenerated. organs, etc.
So his prime Faust patient
Arthur Evelyn I,ardet of London,
aged seventy-four, as lively as a kit
| ten. who "chases them eight miles
after breakfast" and is growing a
full crop Of black hair on a bald head.
was suffering from nothing more than
what Metchnikof termed "pathologi-
cal old age" before the grating.
And even should DIR. voronoff have
picked and chosen all his old men he
was justified in doing so. not to COM
pltcate his main proposition-thata a
! vital chimpanzee gland grated onto
| an elderly man pushes his age back
| twenty to thirty years, land some
times the equivalent of forty years."
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lDHYsIOLOGIsTS and others have
been leading up to an idea Of the
human body which renders such
| claims less incredible-and which
| takes away from death itself in a
degree. some of its dread finality!
A man may die two times, three
times, today.
American surgeons, when certain
patients hearts have stopped COM
pletely, cut an opening in the dia-
phrasm and massage the heart. to
| stimulate 1t and restore pulsations.
This has been done, again and again,
sensationally.
But in London they are proving that
| a surgical cut is not necessary-and
| that "katsu resuscitation' is so
| widely applicable that mo person is
| certainly dead beynod recall until de-
| composition has set in while "in all
deaths from shock no person is ac-
tually dead" until such last unmis-
| taxable proof appears.
The words are those of Capt. S. L.
McLaslen. undefeated jiu-jltsu cham
pion Of the world, in his revelations
| of an ancient and hitherto secret jap
| anese system of restoring the appa-
rently dead to life. 1t has created a
vast stir in London.
1t is massage done with the dead
! man seated against your knees tyou
standing behind him. with your
thumbs dug IN at the pectoral arch,
on either side (where the neck be-
gins. and your four fingers On the
diaphragm.
Jerking pressure. upward and down.
ward. stimulates the nerves of the
heart, where the muscles leave them
most exposed. and causes the chest to
Slightly expand and contract. making
the dead man inhale and exhale.
At the same time sharp blows are
delivered with your knee on about
the seventh dorsal vertebra-which
stimulates the pneumogastric center
and assists the chest to expand and
contract.
practice Of no moro than is above
told has sufi1ced according to Brit
ish army surgeons) to bring back
men on their way to burial: and at
this hour. they are at it largely.
No operation. YOU see, is required
to make trial; and a trial risks
nothing on a dead man. The word
dead" is not put in quotes, because
there is no question of trance or
suspended animation" no horror Of
being buried alive" because the dead
man is dead-he can never come
back" unless drought back.
Many who are brought back (it
must be admitted) do not stay brought
back Failure is more or less inevi-
table. finally, in cases where death
has been rather due to degenerated
organs. etc.
But land here we are getting to
it,, it is exactly from this point of
view that Katsu. on the other side
of the world, is becoming the start
ing point for prolonged life of the
living!
JAPANESE physiologists Git is told
j in Paris) are developing Katsu in
connection with the forgotten Chinese
system of "acupuncture" for its cor
responsiveness"
It is for the living. Here are no
more stopped hearts or thumbs in
the pectoral arch: but analogous
manirulations are applied to stimu-
late and synchronize "the glands"-
the magical glands of which the mon
key specimen, which Arthur Evelyn
Lardet wears. 10 but one and
the best known.
It is not specified that the glands
themselves are manipulated. The
Japs are very cunning along these
indirect lines; and it may be that
they conceal an adjunct. The only