Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — Discover Rest for Weary [ARTICLE]

Discover Rest for Weary

Berlin Specialist Claims to Have Found Cure for Tired FeelingExperiments With Dogs. Berlin.—Prof. Loewy of the Berlin Agricultural High school, a famous specialist, has arranged so that nobody need ever be tired any more has found how to inoculate us against that exhaustion of vital energy which We call getting fagged out Perfectly serious he is about it He has discovered that a substance called spermin injected under the skin removes the symptoms of exhaustion and enables weary creatures to go on working long after nature usually cries “Halt!” Some trained dogs were set like prisoners to run everlastingly ,uphill over an electrically-driven treadmill. They were kept at this until the poor beasts looked ready to drop with exhaustion and the chemical tests showed that the drain on what constitutes energy in dogs and men was too great to be longer maintained. Then the professor injected large doses of spermin under the dogs’ hides.

In three experiments the immediate result was a great recovery from exhaustion and the dogs were set to work again on their treadmill and trotted off, if not as fresh as ever, yet distinctly no longer overtired. Why spermin produces this extraordinafy effect Professor Loewy has not yet ascertained.