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Show THERE IS ALWAYS A FLAW. Speaking of an elixir of life, the New j York World says: The Ponce de Leons of medical sci-I sci-I ence are still seeking the fountain of l perpetual youth. A Paris doctor thinks e has found It in the simple process of grafting new ntersttUal glands on ; old bodies. A decrepit he-goat thus treated became "young and vigorous again." A boy of 14. an idiot, was pro-j pro-j vldcd with a sound thyroid gland from ft monkey and was found fit for army j service three years later Why, then, : may not men, as they grow old, go to the family physician to be fitted out with a new set of elands and take on a new lease of vigor? It is an alluring theory. Given plen ty of monkeys to supply the demand for glands, the human race m.iy iook for physical immortality on earth But what has become of all the recipes of other years for robust longevity'' Are there any centenarians today who owe their creat age to Dr. Brown-Squard's elixir of life'' What ever became of J the sour-milk theory of life prolongation? prolonga-tion? Has the search for perpetual youth through the pl.uitnry gland or the suprarenal capsule of goats been abandoned? But as with the tendon of Achilles, 1 there is always some slight flaw to prevent a perfect realization of perpetual perpet-ual youth What added length of yers man has got he has obtained from :he less pretentious discoveries of preventive preven-tive medicine. But no doubt Invest!- gators will always search for a recipe for youth and laymen will believe in, the possibility because they want to believe. |