TO CURE OLD AGE.
PRO FEASOR’S DISCOVERY OF MICROBES THAT PRESERVE YOUTH.
IVoM'Sqi* Muibdmi'koff, vice-presi-dent of the Pasteur Institute, informed the Academy of Si once in Pans that he had discovered a. remedy for o'd aye, the cause cf which is poisoning by a microbe. Such microbes cannot ex : st in sugar, and, consequently, if sugar can he produced within the human body, the microbes of old ape will be eliminated. Professor Metrhnikoff has discoverer! the mi robe that produces sugar in this manner, and has named it gly•eobacteria. He experimented with the microbes on a- white rat, and from that time the rat ceased to develop symptoms of old aye. Professor Afetclinikoff is now endeavoring to transfer the glycobaeteria into the human body. AVhen this has hoen effected t-lie beneficient microbe can be cultivated by an abundance r>f albuminoid and succulent food'. The result, the professor believes- will be that the glycobaeteiu; will destroy the microbes which hardon the human arteries, whiten our hair, and decay our teeth, finally causing death front “old age.’-'
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3586, 27 July 1912, Page 5
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175TO CURE OLD AGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3586, 27 July 1912, Page 5
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