TO RETIRE AT 120.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 23

TO RETIRE AT 120.

GLAND " MEDICINE." AN EXPERT'S CHALLENGE. TREATED FAMOUS FOOTBALL TEAMS. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON", April 8. Mr. A. Menzies Sharpe, the gland expert whose treatment was adopted by bnth football te*me in the English Cup Final, plans to retire when he is 120. He takes hi< own "medicine." At the- «ge of r,H he has approached insurance companies for an endowment policy for SKUIOO payable on hi* iaOtJi birthday. "You may think it falltflstir," he said this week, "but I mean business. I inn prepared to pay the premium now in one substantial lump ••Two in-uiiince companies ha\e trkl t,i<? jHWitely that they wmild nn-t haveto work Jut new actuarial litres. £»

this is in the nature of a challenge. ] am jjivin;* all leading British insurance companies an opportunity to quote me a premium." Formerly « mining engineer. Mr. Sharpe first became interested in glands or the science of endocrinology as a hobby. Ten years ago his hobby became his full-time job. In the summer of 1!K!7 it was announced that Aliilverhatiipton Wanderers had adopted Mr. Sharpe".- gland treatment to build up a tt'iiin of super players. To-day the \Vol\es are hot favourites to win the Cup. and also have a sporting chance of winning the League chainpionship. Portsmouth, the other Cup finalists, have al-o taken gland treatment. Apart from gi> ing players increased speed, stamina, and stayin" power fas football proved), gland extracts, according to Mr. Sharpe, the ail-wer to man's centuries-old quest for prolonged youth and a longer life-span. Holding up a phial ,pf dear, nnibcr liquid. 1m» said: '•This contains gland extracts of animals —oxen, sheep, rabbits. It can add years to a man's life without merely being a lengthening of old age, "'Since 1920 I have supplied gland extracts for the treatment under medical supervision, of between 15,000 and £11.1)00 people. More than half have been people o\er o"i. Statesmen, busine.-.-iiiugnates, stage and screen stars have

been •riven a new lease of useful life by a course of the injections. I foresee the day when to live to 100 years will be considered normal. As the demand for "land extracts increases, I shall be able to reduce the juices. Already the cost of twelve injections, as supplied to doctors, has been reduced from £20 to £!), and further reductions will be possible soon. 1 b<? content if the business pays without profit to myself.''