Medicine: Sensational Serum

Russian science has reported another medical sensation: a serum which stimulates or inhibits the life processes of living tissue. The Russian scientists claim that the serum hastens wound healing, mends broken bones more quickly, increases the body's defenses against infection and cancer, may enable man to live to be 125 years old.

Born in Jail. Professor Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomoletz, who has worked on the serum for more than 18 years, is a physiologist and pathologist of very high international standing. He is director of Kiev's Institute for Experimental Biology and Pathology which, until the...

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