Show MYSTERY OF anath PROBED BY scientists death the scientist la not lug down of 18 but an actie agent that can be controlled experiments which it is asserted are a beginning of the unraveling of the mysteries of death were made public by prof jacques loeb at the fourteenth annual meeting of the american phys society at the university of chicago monday night during the last summer the noted scientist has been continuing h s series of expert ments with the eggs of the lower marine animals specially those of the sea urchin and in a paper entitled on on of lite of unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin by potassium cyanide he told a group of the fore most phys ana in america that by means of observation of the effects of certa n chemicals upon these minute bits of protoplasm he was ready to make a tentative definition of the here tolore unknown nature of death death prof loeb affirmed was not a negative process a simple breaking down of as it has been regarded up to this time but an active agent born with the birth of the egg and destined if not checked to gain the upper hand of the life instinct and br ng about extinction but greater even than the apparent d of this death agent in all life substance is prof loeb s 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 eaid 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 unfertile Un fertil zed eggs of the sea urchin were placed in a weak tion of potassium cyan de and aban boned for several days in ordinary conditions an unfertilized egg d es in a few hours destroyed by the death agents born with it at the end of several days the eggs were again ex and were foice to be still capable of fertilization and of prodoc ing healthy animals in exola ning the results prof loeb said that the processes were due to the actions of certa n fer ments of an unknown nature whose destructive tendency was counteracted by the potassium salts several other papers of importance were read during the meet ng D J lingle of the university of chi eago gave the results of h s research into the effect of common salt upon the heart beat he affirmed with great emphes s that contrary to the state cowells of harvard salt is the sole agent responsible for the rhythmic act on of the heart |