Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-03 | Page 24 | Science Finds way to Make Man Taller

Science Finds Way to Make Man Taller IE YOU are a son or daughter of the gods of a divine height you may not be of that army corps that yearn to grow tall. It has retimtned for Professor T. Ilrails-ford Ilrails-ford Itobertson, doctor of philosophy and science, and not of medicine, to discover the active agent in living tissues, which grows and causes au increase in the height of the individual. Observations have accumulated over the last dozen years or more to prove that tallness and giantism are intimately associated asso-ciated with disorders of and growths In the pituitary gland or hypophysis. This bit of soft tissue resembles a double or twin ch.-stnut jn the burr and is suspended from under the brain into a nest or dugout over tl: r nasal bone. Professor Robertson has just triumphed over many dhlioulties and obtained a bit of substance in the forepart of this, the pituitary gland, which will cause man aud other animals to firow. It was found that this agent or principle prin-ciple has definite chemical aud physiological physio-logical characteristics, is easily obtainable aud can be made of great service to humanity. hu-manity. He has named it "teUiolin," from the Greek word which means to grow. However, the dried tissue of the forepart fore-part of the pituitary glands of the ox Is boiled iu the strongest alcohol, evaporated under pressure, redissolved In ether, removed re-moved from this, washed in alcohol aud ether, dried and pulverized. Tethelin in amounts of about half a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful Is obtained from oOO head of cattle. cat-tle. That is to say, from thirty to forty-five forty-five grains of othclin comes from MOO pituitarlcs of oxen, which will make it very, very expcnslve fr ih"SG V-ho wish to take some to become taller. When less fhnn a grain of this pituitary extract is fed to mice over 4 weeks old it at first retards their growth in weight, but conspicuously hastens their increase in ize aud Vascular uowcr. Mice which have swallowed tethelin are, according to this savant, much more firmly and compactly built than the average aver-age animals of the same age. Also they are bigger. The favorable effect upon the skin of tethelin proves that beauty is more than skin deep aud, therefore, intimately Interwoven Inter-woven in the web and woof of the flesh and blood. The coats of grown-up animals which have been fed with tethelin retain beyond middle and advanced age the glossy, silky appearance of the coats of young animals. The normal creatures six months prior to M months have wrinkles, shaggy coats, "staring" fur and discoloralinns. Those ' fed with tethelin are as beautiful as those (i and 7 months old. Experiments were also "brought to a victorious conclusion." as the European belligerents report their various battles, iu tho matter of fevers, anaemias, poor uour-