PROLONGING LIFE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 28 October 1922, Page 3

PROLONGING LIFE.

REMARKABLE CLAIMS FOR A SECRET SERUM. ' One hundred and fifty years of life from serum ! The “ Daily Express understands that what is claimed to be another epoch-making secret lias been wrested from the serum discovered by Dr Henri Spahlinger, the world-famous Swiss scientist and bacteriologist, whose serum and vaccine treatment for the cure of consumption represents the most successful effort yet made to rid mankind of this mortal disease. In jection of ferments from the Spnhiinger serum are stated t-o have resulted in a rejuvenation and prolongation of the life of the body that equal, ir they do not surpass, the wonders of the curative, effects of the serum in jected into the consumptive. Accredited scientists and medical men associated with Dr Spahlinger in his researches confidently hope that in jections of the serum ferments which stimulate and revivify the body cells will in time prolong the human span oi life to a term of 150 years. If thei* hopcs are fulfilled monkey glands will be out of date. So far this second great secret of the serum is known only to Dr Spahling.w and bis closest associates and intimates, who arc subjecting themselves to serum ferment injections for the pur poses of investigation and research. Dr Henri Spahlinger is a man of ma - ture years, with a remark ahi v youthful appearance. He has repelled every overture for the commercial exploitation of his wonderful discovery, an 1 ajLms at nothing less than the manufacture _of his two curative agents, serum and vaccine-, so that they may be distributed to rich and . poor alike ad over the world, and at the cost price of manufacture. Tlie Spahlinger serum takes anvthing from one to four years to pro dure. and. at the present stage of the work, seven horses are required for manufacturing one complete treatment. The bacteriologist’s simple explanation of the serum treatment for consumption is that it resembles the anti-toxin treatment for diphtheria. The serum is painlessly prepared from certain animals stabled near the bacteriologist’s germ factory -in Geneva. M. Spahlinger is understood to have experimented on his own body with the life-prolonging ferment, which may account for his own extraordinary vigour and youthful appearance.