GERMAN CLAM

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1935, Page 5

GERMAN CLAM

PROPHECY BY MECHANISM

(United Press Association—By Elec-Die Te I egra ph—C opy rigli t)

NEW YORK. April 24

A now “hour glass” device, which peers into the eye of a person and tells him how last lie is ageing, and how many years of life hr may expect, '■’urring accident nr bacterial disease, was described for 1 lie first time here to-day betoi'o the National Academy ol .Sciences by Professor Felix Bernstein, lornierly , f Goettingen University, an t | now a visiting Professor of Columbia University, The discovery is regarded as highly significant in its medical a'nl social' implication*. The device, which Professor Bernstein has used far predicting accurately the life term ol some 25011 persons during the course of researches iu Germany, measures the elasticity loss ill the lons of the eye of ageing persons, fib ore being a direct correlation between the amount of til is hardening and the hardening of the arterial system. A statistical moLliind. furthermore, shows in relation between the age of a patient, the degree of hardening, and the normal rate of such hardening, thus enabling longevity predictions to within one venr or less.