TEN-YEAR-OLD MEN
PICTURE OF POSSIBLE FUTURE Children weaned when' a few weeks old . . . walking at six months ... athletes at five years . . . fully-grown men at the age of ten. That is a picture of what would happen if experiments tried on white rata f at the Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research were successfully applied to human beings. Results of these experiments were described in a lecture at Baltimore, Maryland, by Dr Leonard G. Rowntree, director of the institute. He stated that the institute had no intention of extending .them to the human race at present. Phenomenal growth, Dr Rowntree explained had been induced in the offspring of rats treated with injections of thymus gland extract. After three generations rats had been born with teeth, grew fur a few hours afterwards, and could swim and run when two weeks old. That represented a sixfold speeding up of growth.
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Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 13
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146TEN-YEAR-OLD MEN Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 13
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