PROLONGED LIFE.

Shannon News, 13 January 1925, Page 3

PROLONGED LIFE.

voronoff’s experiments. “NO ONE NEED DIE.” LONDON, Dec. 28. “1 am convinced that nq one need die till tired, of life, but may retain his youthful faculties for ever,” says Professor Voronoff, the Russian scientist, in an article in the Sunday Pictorial, his first contribution to any newspaper. “interstial glands might be taken six hours after death Lum young men killed in accidents, and preserved for one or two days in special liquids. Monkey glands would be more practicable, and equally as good. “Though my operation on 800 human beings have indisputably resulted in improved memory and vitality, and often in better sight, hearing, and a re-growth of hair, they do not yet conclusively prove a prolongation of life, because the first operation was performed in 1920, and the oldest patients. were 83 years Of age. “On the contrary, experiments, on shorter-living animals have been definite. In 1918 I operated on a number of toothless., glazed-eyed, skin-and-bone rams, aged 12 ard li years. At present one has reached the age oi 2(t has become vigorous and full of youthful Ardour, and is. the proud father of three lambs, which were born in 1919, 1920, and 192". He has already surpassed a ram’s record for longevity by five yearn, and will probably attain double the normal age. Experiments, have shown that a second grafting is as effective as the first.”