Show WHEN lEN OUR LIVES LENGTHEN TO ISO YEARS SEARS H S g 2 N B B Sg H 2 i 4 SIR RONALD ROSS ENVISIONS THE NEW V SOCIAL PICTURE THAT DOUBLING OF SPAN S AN OF Or HUMAN EXISTENCE WOULD BRING By MILTON l BRONNER ER NEA EA Service S Writer r Oct Theoretically LONDON there Is no reason why In the future man should not live to be beISO ISO years ears old The scientist who aroused discussion d some years ago by enunciating this theory was the great Russian of the Pasteur Institute In Paris At the i time I said I thought he was was' right and I say so now The man mcm who said this to me isone Is Isone isone one of the worlds world's greatest living discoverers Sir discoverers Sir Ronald Ross who isolated the malaria microbe in the mosquito and traced Its entire life history thus paving pa the way for the prevention of malaria and yellow fever he envisioned for forme forme forme me the new social picture that thai doubling of the human span would bring The Thc whole tendency of modem medical science is to prolong the theme life me of man Sir Ronald said One by one we are discovering drugs that conquer certain diseases One by b one we wc arc are discovering the microbes that cause other diseases We are learning how to combat them either cither with toxins anti-toxins or other methods Surgery Is extending Its field We not only are curing and heal heal- healing ing but are learning that p prevention cn- cn tion Is la better than cure We are learning how to prevent The more we thus learn the more chances man has to live lI longer IS JS ULTIMATE ULTI TEST IMPOSSIBLE LEl The best and ultimate but per per- perhaps perhaps perhaps haps Impossible test of the tile ability of man to live beyond his present allotted sorce of years would be beto beto beto to have ha a man from his babyhood up live e in what practically would be bea a a. sterilized test tube lie He would breathe sterilized air He would eat sterilized food He would drink sterilized itemized liquids He would thus be bo placed as far farus faras us IS humanly possible beyond the thel range l of the myriad microbes that in many ways arc are the enemies of man and that bring about many of his ailments Such a man growing and living under special conditions might live to be But we dont don't know Even if the test were possible Ible it may nuy be that the human body itself would just naturally wear out that certain parts would break breakdown breakdown breakdown down or cease to function This breakdown this ceasing to function might ht be inherent in the human machine or It might be the result of heredity It It were the latter then our theoretical test tube men and women might transmit a greater longevity But even without this there Is every reason to believe bellev that in the future men will live longer than they do now no We are coping more and more with the diseases by microbes we are learning more about proper diet and proper personal habits When the the- sum of this knowledge is Imparted to the average man and when he takes advant ge of It and obeys obes the precepts to be deduced from it he will I have hale a a. much better fl chance a c to live longer THE EFI EFFECT ON os HUMAN SOCIETY Would the world be any better batter b off with the average span of life I r WHO VOLUNTEERS I 1 I Iz I z jl I I C Cl l I i I i I 7 he he best and ultimate Le Lest of the ability oF ot man Lo hoe flue lon lone beyond his allotted score oP years would be to Eo have a than man his babyhood up live practically would be A sterilised test esl E tube Such Sucha a roan live hue to Lo be Some Notables You Might l Have e Met l Had They Lived a Century and a a Half MEN and women of o immortal fame still would be striding down the highways of o human activity had they enjoyed life lICe spans of years They would include DANIEL WEBSTER born 1782 I BISMARCK born 1783 QUEEN VICTORIA born 1819 RICHARD WAGNER V born 1813 R R. R W. W EMERSON born 1803 FREDERICK CHOPIN born 1810 EDGAR ALLEN POE born 1809 GARIBALDI born 1807 1507 ALFRED TENNYSON born 1809 MAXIMILIAN born 1832 ROBERT E. E E LEE born 1809 I CARRIE NATION born 1840 ULYSSES S. S S GRANT born 1822 18 I HORACE GREELEY born 1811 lifted to years That's a R problem The world Is made up of nations and races and these In turn of individuals If a longer life made bet bet- better better better ter individuals then we would have ha havea haea a better world If It not then vice versa ersa It also depends upon the viewpoint From the moral and social stand stand- standpoint standpoint point a rascal who lived to be might be bc a a. nuisance Would the average person be mentally prepared to make male good use of such a long life Ufe We cant can't tell If 11 men lived lI to be Instead of 70 the average a person of that age might be a far different person from our average man of today as asto asto asto to education abilities capacities for happiness You know the old saying If I youth but knew if It old age but could The way things are arc today man takes many of the thc best years of his life accumulating wisdom Then when he seems best prepared to make full use of It there comes senility and death If It our period of maturity I lasted twice as long as It does now maybe we would accomplish twice as much Maybe if mans man's life were vere prolonged to years the periods of Infancy and adolescence would be pretty much what hat they are now followed follow cd by a very long tranquil period of maturity maturity espe espe especially dally cape mental maturity The ad- ad scientist scientist would not have to leave his life work worl unfinished the thc writer TIt r would go on producing master master- pieces Life LUe might be made extraordinarily extra extra- extraordinarily extraordinarily ordinarily richer and fuller But all that Is today in the realm of speculation and fancy HIS illS WORK ROMANTIC RO It was as an extraordinary privilege privilege privilege lege to be talking with one of the undoubted d great men of this age I Ione one of whom it has been b en said that he made third one-third of the world I fit It for habitation by man What he did is one of the greatest romances I of modem I I i t I a a I I I I The writer riter would go co on producing producIng ing masterpieces Forty years ears ago there was attached to the Indian Medical Service a a. young doctor whose father had been a great soldier In the army of India One of the plagues of India as of a vast section of world the tha world f oi was malaria Thinking of tills this the young oung doctor who was also a I poet wrote In this 0 O Nature yield I pray to tom me meI m meI I J pace and pace and think and think and take The fevered hands bands and note no Ie down downall downall all aU I see That some dim distant light may haply break The painful faces ask can we not cure We answer r No not yet we wc seek the laws O 0 God reveal through all this thing thine obscure The unseen small but million- million murderIng cause There came a 0 ray of light Dr Laveran a French army surgeon discovered the malarial parasite inthe in inthe Inthe the human blood Sir Patrick I r 4 Sir Ronald made third one-third of the thc world fit for habitation Manson formed the theory that there I might be a development of the parasite In the mosquito But theory and proof were different things millions ons were dying from the disease The young oung poet doctor-poet tried to find the proof of the Manson theory He got no encouragement but much obstruction from his superiors Undeterred he labored in the tropical heat oL of of his his- hospital office Endless weary hours were spent dissecting tiny segments of mos mos- mosquitoes and studying them through an old microscope long since rust rust- rusted rusted ed with his own sweat and with the last piece eye cracked crocked But Buthe he found nothing AT LAST SUCCESS ST SUCCESS Then one day there was brought to him a new type of mosquito the anopheles Again nothing Only the stomach tissue of the insect remained to be examined ed The doctor was very ery weary and It seemed to him of no use to togo togo togo go on lIe He had made thousands of examinations with no results But I I f s' s Z r a v 2 H t P i act 0 9 r p 4 Sir Ross he put the stomach tissue under I Ithe Ithe the microscope and behold behold In in each of the stomach cells ceIls there was a cluster of small smaIl granules black as jet It was malarial pig pig- ment The next day the cells had grown larger They were the ma ma- malarial malarial malarial parasites It was 15 not long before the young doctor followed their life cycle cele from the stomach to the proboscis of the mosquito He had found the type t e of mosquito which carried the disease from mal mal- Infected aria-Infected patients to well per per- sons He had pointed the way to fighting other diseases carried by mosquitoes and other Insects pests In 1902 1003 he was given the Nobel prize for medicine He was knighted In 1911 and has been honored by scientific societies all over the world Today the young doctor is the veteran Sir Ronald Ross His I I little rusty ty microscope h oJ has a a place I of honor 10 In 1 the museum of the I Ross Poss Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases In London which was named after him and over o which he presides |