A short while ago the newspapers announced Professor Steinach's experiments in rejuvenescence, W created such a sensation. His eagerly expected book has at last been published. It contains a number of interesting illustrations, which show an old, senile male rat, before the operation which is to rejuvenate him, in a miserable state three-and-a-half months afterwards the animal looks utterly changed and has lively eyes and a youthful expression. By a different operation practised on a female rat, an animal already sterile had young ones again which she could suckle.
Steinach alleges that old men can be treated successfully within moderate limits. The carlier the symptoms of old age appear, the more chances of a successful operation. He tells of three cases. one a man of 44, much emaciated, grown old and unable to do bodily work; two to three months after the operation he felt quite youthful. his wrinkles were gone and he could again use his muscles. In the second case a man of 66 was treated successfully; in the third even a man of 71.
But Professor Steinach admits that all his work means only the beginning of a series of future researches. He has to work without assistants or servants, without mono, and without animals to experiment upon, and of late with a most insufficient laboratory. He requires an institute fitted for experimental and practical biology. "May more pro-sporous countries make a beginning." the Professor desires.
The larger part of Steinach's experiments refers to men. Women have to undergo different treatment, and X-rays are applied successfully According to another doctor, Paul Kammerer, the process might enable weak' mothers to nurse their babies.
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