100 YEARS AGO

摘要

The Problem of Age, Growth, and Death: a Study of Cytomorphosis. By Prof. Charles S. Minot -From the time of Cicero, perhaps before, the problems of longevity and of the cause of old age have again and again been subjects of speculation. Not long ago, Metchnikoff, in his optimistic work, "The Nature of Man," ascribed old age to poisoning by bacterial poisons developed as a result of fermentations occurring in the large intestine... Prof. Minot develops another conception of the nature of "growing old."