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Show SCIENTIST HAS RADICAL THEORIES ON OLD AGE MADRID. Dec. 11. Everybody hitherto has gone wrong in investigut- H Ing the problem of old age and decay H ! because the study of the subject has H , started from the wrong end. according H to a Spanish scientist. A. de Uregorn H Rocasolano, lb- says scientists begun by investigating old age in man in the higher or-. ms. which might he com- pared to the study of mathematics be- ginning with the differential calculus. H lie argued ihat at present It was pOaalbl to study scientifically the ad- H j vent of old age and the conclusion ould be i In-, thai th.-rf is no olu tlon of coninuity between Inert matter H and live matter. Modem biological in. j vestlgullons proved, he Bald, that form was not the base of life. The cells. H j he declared, are -heterogeneous cheml- leal systems, which are not the living H .form but live matter. In the sam H way as Ihe atom Is the smallest pos-Slble pos-Slble mass which can enter into cheml-ca cheml-ca combinations, the cell is the small-possible small-possible quantity of live matter I that can be identified, but Is itself H composed of living units, lie conclud-the conclud-the difference between dead and live matter is not chemical but physo-co-ehemlcal. H |