Take three freshly dead young men.. . .
This recipe, with variations, seems to be the starting point of many a medical marvelthe transplantation of organs, resuscitation of the dead, the life-prolonging serum "ACS"with which Russian physicians bemuse their foreign colleagues and astound the public (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944). Last week the discoverer of ACS ("anti-reticular cytotoxic serum") presented his notions and discoveries in the first English translation of his book The Prolongation of Life.* He also granted his first interview to the foreign press.
In his laboratory amid the ruins of Kiev, reporters found Professor Alexander A. Bogomolets, the prophet of longevity,...