DOMINO REACTION
had the war lasted another year or two. Other researches kept me ceaselessly occupied 16, 17 and 18 hours a day for long periods without a single break, and at the end of 1918 I was feeling a very tired man. For the first time in my life I began to feel my age, lumbago began to plague me, my sight deteriorated rapidly, my hair turned from grey to white, and kidney trouble, that commonest accompaniment of old age, had begun to twist its subtle tentacles about me, more surely destroying my vitality, physical and mental. A CONFIRMED INVALID By the time I reached the year 1921 I was beyond all doubt an infirm old man, and none the less a confirmed invalid, because I refused to be absolutely bedridden. In fact, I declined to give up hope, and when my doctor told me to make my will, as I had not long to live, I determined there and then to search for the secret of the living cell. “I did not believe that so-called “old age” is really a proof that the human machine is worn out. Autopsies have proved over and over again that the human machine has rarely exhausted' its potentialities—after 70 and 80 years there were still decades of potential service—heart, lungs, liver, stomach and other organs and glands all sound in themselves. What, then, was wrong?
My own case supplied a clear and emphatic answer; it was lack of energy lack of the driving force necessary to keep the human machine running efficiently. The next step was to discover how this energy or driving force could be supplemented whenever it fell below the requirements of the human machine.
I DISCOVER THE SECRET OF THE LIVING CELL
It was the problem of the essential nature of the human cell and its reactions. The conclusions at which I at length arrived are fully recorded in a book of some 200 pages, entitled “The New Light: A Scientist’s Philosophy of the Universe.” It is impossible to explain my theory here without going into details which would occupy a score or more columns of
for they had last seen me as a brokendown old man, whose sunken eyes, livid cheeks and hesitating walk fully confirmed my doctor’s grave opinion of the outlook before me. Now they saw me striding along with the firm and confident bearing of a man of 30. WORLD-WIDE INTEREST IN MY DISCOVERY Agencies for the sale of the Overbeck Rejuvenator have been established not only in all parts of the British Empire, but also in practically every foreign country. Others are thus benefiting equally with myself as a result of my discovery. I need only say in conclusion that today, at the age of 76, I am enjoying wonderful health, which I attribute entirely to my Rejuvenator. I am never tired; I revel in long journeys; I eat heartily and enjoy every meal to the last scrap; I read without glasses; I can use a spade with any man, and
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Southland Times, Issue 23586, 13 August 1938, Page 12
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507DOMINO REACTION Southland Times, Issue 23586, 13 August 1938, Page 12
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