Our Youth Will Be Renewed with the Days...

Every one of us hates old age and wishes he could remain young all his life. And every one of us would like never to die. But death is a natural thing, necessary of existence, for without it there would be no life. Yet can we not find an elixir that will prolong our lives and make us strong and healthy? Is it possible to find a remedy that will do away with old age and its burdens, and make of us young people to whom illness can find no way? Many are those who have thought of this — without passing from thought into the sphere of positive action — until at last there came the famous Soviet scientist, Professor Alexander Bogomolets, who did not stop at the bounds of mere thought but crossed over into the sphere of action, and after long striving arrived at the discovery of that wondrous fluid, A.C.S., renewer of youth and prolonger of life.

It should not, however, spring to mind that A.C.S. announces the discovery of that fabled elixir which makes of whoever drinks it an immortal whom death has no power to snatch away. We know with the certainty of knowledge that man grows old and ages with a speed surpassing all imagining, and that because of his manner of living: for example, insufficient nourishment, disturbance and weakness of the nervous system, exhausting work, and so on...

And now let us ask ourselves this question: how long is man capable of living?

Buffon, the French naturalist of the nineteenth century, found after many experiments that the natural lifespan of an animal ranges between five and seven times the length of its period of growth, or on the average six to one. That is, if the period of an animal's growth is five years, its lifespan will be some thirty or thirty-five years. The experiments that have been tried have proved the soundness of this theory, especially in domestic animals. Bogomolets applied this theory to man, and saw that since man's bones do not cease growing until the age of twenty-five, man's lifespan must therefore range, according to Buffon's theory, between 120 and 150 years.

But we know quite well that those who pass the hundred mark are a minority in the world. Why? Or, to put it another way, what is that secret which enables this minority to carry their lives beyond the hundred years?

This is what Bogomolets tried to discover. And while he stood perplexed, behold, he heard an inner voice saying to him: Look into the matter of the cellular tissues in the human body. Why should it not be they? Is it not possible? — especially since these tissues — sometimes called the connective tissues — are to the body what mortar is to a building, holding the whole body together and binding it part to part? Our scientist listened to that inner voice and obeyed its command. After long study he reached a conclusion: that the connective cellular tissues in the bodies of those who had attained ripe old age were in a state of soundness and preservation, in contrast to the tissues of those who had died from an illness arising out of weakness of the body. He then took up the study of the connective cellular tissues in the young and in the old, and arrived at new discoveries: namely, that the function of these tissues is not confined to being merely passive; they have an important positive function. They are the center of vital force in the human body; it is they that resist the attacks of the deadly microbes; it is they that distribute nourishment to the body; they are in truth the body's engineer, for they build the skeleton and the elastic cells that give the body the shape we know; and they are, finally, the gushing spring of life that refuses to run dry.

This is what the learned Bogomolets arrived at; and he threw himself into the work with all his strength and energy. After several years spent with sixty assistants at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Biology in Kiev, he succeeded in compounding the serum known as A.C.S. — the serum that restores to the cellular tissues and the reticular cells their strength and activity. And when these tissues become strong again, as they were in the days of boyhood and youth, the body becomes strong and able to repel the attacks of the deadly microbes, and long life is thereby assured.

By the time Bogomolets reached this result, his age was close upon sixty. He used to say of himself that he was a young man still only at the middle of his life, and that there lay before him some sixty more years in which to enjoy the pleasures of living.

The range of this serum's effect has now widened, and the world looks to it hopefully. It is used after operations for the removal of cancer, to prevent its appearing again; it is given to those suffering from hardening of the arteries, from severe blood pressure, or from mental and nervous disorders. The serum has been used to treat deep wounds and to remove certain bodily infirmities, and it has also proved effective in healing certain difficult fractures. It has likewise been used to remove sterility in several kinds of animals — and this makes the physicians believe that it must have the same effect in man, doing away with sterility once and for all.

These are some of the results this new vital serum has given. And the physicians believe that this serum will work a revolution in the world of modern medicine, and that it will do away with old age and its troubles — by making young people of us even should we pass the hundred!!