Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — No More Old Age. [ARTICLE]

No More Old Age.

A French physician makes the announcement that he has discovered the microbe of old age and gives tho results of some experiments tending to prove that his discovery is Invested with all the importance that such a revelation merits. The microbe he has discovered is not only found alone in the blood of aged people, but if it is injected into the veins of a young person it produces at once all tho physical manifestations of senility But Dr. Brisson goes a g#od ways futher and declares that the injection of a certain serum, which he has also found, destroys these microbes in the blood of an aged person, and that, barring accidents and disease, a man may live indefinitely so long as the microbes can be destroyed in the blood. It may, therefore, be possible that we are on tho borders of another Methuselan age, and it is probable that the reason for the remarkable longevity of the patriarchs in Old Tes tament times may be due to the fact that the “old age microbe" had not been developed, and so Methuselah and Noah kept living because an electric car did not run over them or the vermiform appendix did not get on the rampage and carry them off. But with the improved facilities for killing people in these days of grade crossings, trolley cars and bicycles, it is really necessary that something should be done to give a man half a chance for existence, especially with this microbe galloping up and down in his veins, puckering up his face, destroying his eyesight and eliminating his teeth, so that-in the youthful days hovering about the end of his four score years he breaks don n and dies not because of old age but because he has his blood full of microbes.