Show i A P PLAN UN T TO 0 PROLONG inife M robin zan au eminent french chemist in a memoir mertio ir recently proe Died to the french academy etaf expresses sae 14 a belief that human life maybo greatly prolonged and enters icv afi to an argument cut to sh show i i opinion is based cupon sound i re reasoning aso ning ile he gives the result of his bis personal the subject sub I 1 act and proposes to tode demonstrate the truthfulness of ilia hm position by actual experiments esperi menta upon animals an i mals whose lives aro of short duration ilia argument is that ahat the mineral imatt matter cri which constitutes an ingredient in most moil of our food after the combination is is iii in our system to incrust and stiffen the different parts of tho flie body and to render imperfect many of the vital processes he compares human beings to furnaces which are always kindled life exists only in combus tion but the combustion combus tiow which ell occurs in our bodies like that which takes place in our chimneys leaves a detritus or resi durn which is fatal to life to this ile he would administer lactic acid with ordinary food this acid is known to possess the power r of removing or dissolving the incrustations which form on oil t the tb arteries cartilages carti lages 0 es and valves of the heart beart As buttermilk abounds in tin this s acid and is moreover nn agreeable kind of food its habitual gusej use it is urged will vill free tho the system brorn framI these causes which inevitably cause de death ath bet between veen tho the seventy fifth and one hundredth year I 1 |