A NEW DRUG
MAY BE ANSWER TO LONG LIFE NEW YORK, Dec. 31, A scientist reported to-day that the new drug, cortisone, may be tlie answer to long life. A. report by Professor Thomas Dougherty, University of Utah histologist, said that cortisone appeared to slow down the ageing processes of man. He said liis experimental results indicated that “in all likelihood there is a critical period in the course of infectious disease during which the timely administration of cortisone may prove to be a forestalling factor, effective, possibly, years later.” Professor Dougherty disclosed to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that cortisone offers “a broad new potential in the use of the hormones of adrenal cortex to prevent many of mankind’s most common and lethal diseases.” He believed that cortisone, one of the rarest and most precious of drugs, might.be the answer to all degenerative diseases. He .used many hundreds of mice to test his theories, and found that hormone and adrenal cortex excretion caused a stimulation of the body mechanisms against infection.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 69, 3 January 1950, Page 5
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