AN “HOUR GLASS”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12537, 26 April 1935, Page 5

AN “HOUR GLASS”

MEASURE’S MAN’S SPAN, OF life. TELLS HOW FAST HE IS ageing. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received April 24, 5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 24. A new “hour glass” device, which peers into the eye of a person and tells him how fast he is ageing, and how many years of life he may expect, barring accident or bacterial disease, was described for the first time here today before the National Academy of Sciences by Professor Felix Bernstein, formerly of Goettingen University, and now visiting professor of Columbia University. The discovery is regarded as highly significant in its medical and social implications, the device which Professor Bernstein used predicting accurately the life term of somo 2500 persons during the course of researches in. Germany. It measures the elasticity loss in the lens of the eye of an ageing person, there being a direct correlation between the amount of this hardening and the hardening of the arterial system. His statistical method, furthermore, shows the relation between the age of the patient and the degree of hardening and the normal rate of such hardening, thus enabling longevity predictions to within one year or loss.