Chemists may presently be able to extend human life. Recent discoveries in the chemistry of the body should enable us, according to Professor Star' ling, to achieve full senility. Most people decay in parts, but the new knowledge will enable us to decay harmoniously and not in bits. With the knowledge of the mechanism and lubrication of the body, we may be able to achieve the continuance not of old age, but of youth. The knowledge of hormones is so novel, its development seems so largo, and the function of glands on which, apparently, all our knowledge, our sex, and our morals depend, is so striking that one would like to live a long time in order to see what is going to happen.
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Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 11
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