Show OF MYSTERY PROBED BY SWEN scientists TISTa i ideath death the th claims claim to it not ark ing down 0 of tissue but bul an beuve i atol agent that tbt can lie be controlled experiments Experiment a which it is asserted tere a beginning of the iho unraveling ot of the mysteries ot of death were made public by prof jacques loel loeb at the tour four O annual meet mooting ingot of the american physiological ical society at lb iho 0 university of chicago monday night during abel abe last summer tho the noted scientist has been continuing his series 0 of experiments with the eggs ot of the lower marine animals specially especially those chose of 01 the sea urchin and in a paper entitled on the prolongation of 0 life of unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin by potassium cyanide he be told a group of the tore fore most physicians in america that by means of observation of the effects of certain chemicals upon these minute bits of protoplasm he was ready to make a tentative definition of the heretofore unknown nature of death death prof loeb affirmed was waa not a negative process a simple breaking down of tissues as it has been regarded up to this time but an active a gent born with the birth of the egg and destined if not checked to gain the upper hand of the life instinct e t and a nd bring about extinction but greater even than the apparent discovery of this death agent in all life lie substance Is prof loebs announcement that he has been able to check the agent in the eggs of the sea urchin at least by means of chemical agents this it is said field means nothing less than that on a minute scale the secret of eternal life Is in the power of mankind the experiments prof loeb says were simple unfertilized eggs agga of the sea urchin vere nere placed in a weak solution of potassium cyanide and abandoned for several days in ordinary conditions an unfertilized egg dies la in it a few hours destroyed by the death agents born with it at the end ot of several days the eggs were again ex amid and were found to be still capable of fertilization and of producing healthy animals in explaining the results prof loeb said that the processes were due to tile hie actions ac ions of certain ferments 0 of an unknown nature whose destructive destruct ire tendency was ciuni counteracted by the potassium salts several other papers of importance were read during the meeting prof 1 D J lingle of the university of chicago gave the results of his research into the effect of common bait upon the heart beat ile affirmed with great emphasis that contrary to the statements men ts of prof howells II of Il harvard arvard salt is the sole agent responsible for the I 1 rhythmic action of the heart |