SECRET OF IMMORTALITY
CLAY AND TADPOLES
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WASHINGTON, April 26.
Dr. Schotte, of Amherst College, addressed the National ‘Academy of Sciences here. He described experiments he had conducted with salamanders and tadpoles, in which, he said, elemental clay had been moulded into their eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and other organs of the head. He claimed this foreshadowed a time when man might regenerate lost organs. He stated that in the course of his experiments, heads were made to grow on the tails of adult tadpoles from undifferentiated connective tissue. Thereby was revealed the residence in the body of all living things of the sculptor of life, who, if provided with proper clay and with favourable 'working conditions, could make new bodies out of old ones and could regenerate an individual again and again. Dr. Schotte said: When man definitely isolates the sculptor of life, and learns how to put him to work — possibly during the next fifty or hundred years—then man would, to all intents and purposes, have learned the secret of immortality. ,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 7
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