The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-05-12

der five headings. Each is well
known but will bear repetition:
Fresh Air and Exercise-Fresh
air is the largest single element in
the preservation of health. Win
dows of the sleeping room should al
ways be opened to admit it freely.
Business and professional men and
women should take special care to
get sufficient outdoor exercise daily.
Food and Diet-Drink plenty of
water so there may be an abundant
excess to wash out the waste prod
ucts through lungs, skin and kid
| neys. Eat fruits, green vegetables,
whole wheat bread and milk. Vary
the diet and avoid an excess of
meat, especially at ages over 40.
Sleep-Some people require more
sleep than others, but few can keep
! in the best of health with less than
seven or eight hours.
Mental Acknowledgements who
wishes to keep well and live to old
age should persist in a cheerful
view of life and prohibit worry so
far as possible.
Temperance-Excess use of alco-
hol definitely increases susceptible
ity to disease.
| General scientific advances in the
battle for longevity have been made
without fanfare. But occasionally
has come discovery whose poten-
tialities startle mankind. One of
these is the testimony given by DR..
Alexander Cannon, distinguished
British physician and psychiatrist
who went to the Far East investigat-
ing supernormal phenomena. He
gained an audience with the sup
posedly unapproachable Grand
Lama of Tibet who staged for him
one of the weirdest demonstrations
of occultism the eye of white
man ever beheld.
Tibetian Black Magic.
He reported coffin containing
the body of man seven years bur-
led was brought before the Lama.
At word of command the dead"
man opened his eyes, advanced to
the throne, bowed, and retreated
to his coffin where he apparently
became lifeless again. DR.. Cannon
reported he made all the usual med
ical tests and pronounced the man
dead. But the Lama assured him
that in another seven years the
body would again be resurrected!
That was black magic, but there
is a truly scientific foundation be-
hind the artificial heart" recently
developed by Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh in collaboration with DR..
Alexis Carrel. Briefly, the heart is
known as ''perfusion" pump made
entirely of glass in which the only
moving parts are the valves and the
gas and the fluid which sustain life
in the organ under observation.
Can such an artificial pump be
grated to the human being, replac-
ing a natural heart that will no
longer function? If possible, it might
postpone death for years, though
medical men suggest that the
broken down tissues of the body
would often prove too much for any
robot heart to overcome.
| Many other experiments of this
nature have been revealed recently.
At the University of Minnesota heart
and lungs are being kept alive "a
hours after removal, in a dry air.
tight vessel immersed in water to
maintain an even temperature! Uni
versity of Pennsylvania scientists
are working on glass stomach
which would faithfully enact the
performances of natural organs.
Such things are done in the name
of health, but in the last analysis
there can be no escaping the truth
man is working to increase his days
on earth!
! Western Newspaper Union.