Word: steinached
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...were possible to cleanse every drop of blood, lymph and other liquid in his body, then he would be rejuvenated. How to accomplish all that has, said Dr. Carrel last week, "still to be discovered. . . . No senescent organism has ever been rejuvenated by the procedures of Steinach* and Voronoff. . . .† The process of aging remains irreversible...
...Steinach made a cautious suggestion to experimental biologists: "One may imagine that mental undevelopment might partially be related to the insufficient secretion of natural irritants required by the central nervous system. Furthermore, it is possible that diseases of the central nervous system are psychical anomalies which may be due to the lack of this stimulating secretion. In such cases therapeutic experiments with such an excitant might be attempted...
Here, decided journalists, was an elixir of intelligence. Idiocy, in their thoughtless declarations, was now curable. Dr. Steinach last week emphatically assured the world that it was not an elixir of intelligence, but might be called an elixir "of temperament, because it is a natural stimulant." It restores overworked and overtired nerves to normal and makes sluggish animals active...
...Steinach has "certainly not" tried centronervin on humans. "It is a tremendous field and only sheer ignorance could imagine that such a problem could be solved by a few experiments on tree frogs...
...Berlin an ambitious, shrewd sexagenarian last week asked the public insurance fund to pay for a Steinach reactivation operation upon him. His chief plea was that old age is a common ailment.* Astounded insurance executives fubbed off the old man's demands. To grant them would set a precedent which would upset all their mortality calculations...