THIRTY YEARS YOUNGER

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 7

THIRTY YEARS YOUNGER

Condemned to death for .certain crimes, a Serbian named iiija Krajon consented to become the subject of a glarMgraPting experiment, which has resulted in a man of sixby-thrhe woh was in a decline, becoming rejuvenated, at any rate for the present says a despatch from Belgrade. The transfer wag made early In June by a Russian physician Dr. Kolesnikov, according to the Voronof treatment at, the Serbian town of Zajetchar, and he claims that the operation lias been very successful. 'So weak that he could not walk the patient at the Zajetchar Hospital left a fdw days afterwards, apparently strong and well, and boasting that he fet'l thirty fears younger. Krajon, !who made the operation possible, had been sentenced to death for robberies and .a murder. Owing to helrnia an immediate operation bectame necessary) '-so that the death penalty should be exacted according to the law. He agreed to Dr.. Kolesnikov's request to remove a gland, and made the sacrifice in the humane cause indicated. 1 lihe rejuvenated man declares that he feels better eivery day, anil Dr. KoTsnikov proposes -to report the caseMri detail to the Siberian Physics Association. -