AGED 1900.
A “TERRIBLE,”. PROSPECT. NEW YORK, April 3. .The ability of science to prolong human life to 1,900 years was affirmed yes_ terday at the annual meeting of the New York Medical Society by Dr. Eugene Eisk,- president of the Life Extension Institute. Dr Eisk admitted that the prospect he painted is a “terrible” one, but he maintained that the postponement of middle and old age and doubling and even trebling the ordinary span of life are not fantastic ideas but simple matters compared with communicating with the spirits of the dead. He based his prognostication on the achievements of science in stretching the life of the ordinary fruit-fly 900 times, and after observing that the turtle lives 200 years-and that the Californian redwoods aro practically immortal, he argued that “youth is a phy. sical state and not a function of time.” Dr Fisk’s lecture was followed by the announcement of the establishment of the National Radium Bank, the capital of which consists of 3 grammes of radium, valued nV®55,000, which it proposes to lend to hospitals and physicians free.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1920, Page 1
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181AGED 1900. Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1920, Page 1
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