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Show COMBATING OLD AGE THEORIES EXPOUNDED BY PROFESSOR PRO-FESSOR METCHNlKOFFt - " Russian Scientist, Amazingly Vigorous at Seventy Year of Age, Telia How Human Life May Be Long Extended. Professor Metchnikoff Is again discoursing dis-coursing on beneficent bacilli. Their introduction into the system to destroy de-stroy pernicious microbes will postpone post-pone old age indefinitely, he maintains, main-tains, with the result that no man need take a vacation to recuperate lost vitality. Metchnikoff at seventy works all the time with undiminished test. The fountain of youth which Ponce de Leon sought in 1513 In Florida Flor-ida he could have found at home in sour milk and natural sugar. I For his years the Russian scientist 's amazingly vigorous. He has been (jetting back and keeping his youth Tor 17 years. In a recent Interview Metchnikoff seems to have said nothing noth-ing about exercise as an aid to health. His aim has been to prevent contamination contami-nation of the blood by intestinal poisons poi-sons which clog the human machinery by contact as they spread to organs and arteries. Presumably Metchnikoff takes the air regularly, but science interests him much more than sport Perhaps it can be inferred that he does not think the usual forma of exercise ---"--- necessary If a proper microbe diet la practiced. The active agents Metchnikoff finds in the sugar of dates as well as in the lactic acid of prepared milk. He eats nothing that Is not cooked; even his fruit must be stewed. The sour milk he takes at Ms "first breakfast," which consists of vegetable bouillon and weak tea, besides the draft of bacilli. At lunch and dinner he cats a little meat, free of vegetables, and always compote of fruit. While other scientists of his age who do not follow fol-low his system falter at their work In the laboratory, Professor Metchnikoff Metchni-koff knows no fatigue, finishing "each day fresh and full of enthusiasm. Yet he comes of a short-lived family. Ho insists that hiB physical condition proves beyond challenge that the theory the-ory of beneficent bacilli Is sound. Some of the physical culturlsts reach the same result by a system of - bone twisting, muscle stretching and flushing the colon. One of them, San-ford San-ford Dennett, a well known business roan of San Francisco, is more vigorous vigor-ous and nimble at Beventy-two than Professor Metchnikoff is at seventy. - Mr, Bennett, who eata what he pleases, hold 8 the same theory of ' the "flebil- tatlng and , wasting effects of lnt'a- Nk ' . . " K' "u knowingly ho does ' T.. ' to kin others! "Wl7l7o'jr'euccsr7cx " perimenter on himself, he Is not a scf- y cntist. At fifty Dennett was a blliouB nnd tired-out business man rapidly gTowigjg old. Today he has a fresh conxpjpxlon, sleeps soundly, moves abbu, like a healthy man of forty, and can .6 through a day's bird shooting InJLhe woods without fatigue. Assuming Assum-ing that Professor Metchnikoff Is right when he says that the battle of bacilli in the human system can be decided in favor of the invaderB introduced in natural sugar and sour milk, It might be worth while inqulr!ngwhether the bad bacilli are not killed by the methods meth-ods of the unscientific San Francisco priest of youth in old age, although he makes no study at all of thoBe foods that contain good bacilli. |
