Show the tha aarts farts that ile do not grow old in his work on the senile heart dr balfour tells us says the lied medical teal times new york july that there are two parts of the human organism r n chich it if wisely used largely ese escape a P e senile failure these two are th ebrain the and the heart beart persons who think have often wondered why brain workers great statesmen and others should continue to work nork with almost unimpaired and energy up to a period vl when hen roost most of the or kigans gone and functions of the body are in a condition of advanced senile decay there la Is it a physiologic sio logic reason leason for this and dr balfour tells us what it in the normal brain he affirms remains vigorous to the last and that because its nutrition as s especially provided for about mill dla die life or a little later the general arteries of the body begin to lose their elasticity and to slowly but surely dilate they become therefore much loss efficient carriers of the nutrient blood to the capillary areas but this li Is not the case with the internal caro elds chich supply the capillary areas of the brain on the contrary those thoe large vessels continue to retain their pristine elasticity so that the blood pressure remains normally higher than within the capillary area arcs ot at any other organ in fit the body the cerebral blood paths being thus thua kept open the brain tissue hasue Is kept better nourished than the other tissues of the body who la is there amoni among those mho ho have reached or passed middle ago age that will not be rejoiced to find such admirable elbal teal warrant for the belief that the brain may continue to work and even to 0 o improve almost to tho the icay ely lat last hour of life |