PROLONGATION OF LIFE
SCIENTISTS' SEARCH LINDBERGH VISITS CARREL ST. GILD AS ISLAND, Brittany, July 31. British holiday-makers on the beach of the sleepy fishing village of Port Blanc were awakened from their afternoon nap yesterday by a scarlet monoplane, which swooped three times over the Isle of St. Gildas, which lies a mile off the coast. It was only to-day that they learned that the flyer was Colonel Lindbergh —Man of Wings, as Breton fishermen have named him—signalling his arrival to his friend, Dr. Alexis Carrel, president of the Rockefeller Institute, New York. Colonel Lindbergh landed at Morlaix, on the mainland, and took a car to Port Blanc, where Dr. Carrel awaited him at the quay at 1 a.m. Neither has been seen on the mainland since. The two scientists are working on the problem of lengthening human life, following the principles they used in building the "Carrel-Lindbergh heart" (a machine which keeps human organs alive outside the body). , No one is allowed on the island. The purpose of the present Lindbergh visit, the second this year, is for experiments on the prolongation ol human life, not by glandular treatment, as it has hitherto been thought possible, but by prevention o;' the degeneration of tissue.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 11
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