AN ELIXIR OF LIFE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

AN ELIXIR OF LIFE.

Professor Mechpikoff, of the "Pasteur Inktlluto. believes hs has discovered certain preparation# that would prevent, if injected into the human body, the breaking up constantly taking place in the human cell structure.. Professor Mechnikoff’s theory, briefly stated, as as follows; —Tiie human body is made up of millions of cells which UP to a certain period of their growth "develop and are built up, While the body is young the process is one of accretion and advancement. The body of man grows as the tree grows. As a 'matter of fact, the cells of the human body, seep, under the microscope, greatly resemble vegetable cells. If the "cells are properly fertilised and grow under healthy, normal •conditions they continue to advance to a certain stage. Then a breaking-down’process sets in. The cells begin' to deteriorate. They do not take up their ’proper nourishment. They are worn out. The condition known as old age ief' merely the breaking up "of cell structure iuet as the bricks in a building gradually decs.r. bringing down the entire structure.• There is no reason, mn ; ntains Professor Meehnikoff, why this breaking-down nroccEs in man should pet in as early as it does. He sets up no claim* to arrest deterioration indefinitely. His standpoint is that in man this deterioration occurs too sonn. By •injecting h-’e serum into the bodv in such a way that it nourishes the cells which would otherwise break down the Professor hopes to «r----rent for a hundred years or "more the disintegration of cell structure.—''Science Siftings.”