They say that a classic work is one that nobody has read, but that everyone knows what it is about, like The Bible, Don Quixote, Capital, and some more. And also, Dracula, for example, who now returns to remind us that sucking the other's blood is more than a metaphor.
Precisely in 1492, when Europeans began to suck blood to the continent they had just discovered, transfusions began in the field of medicine in that year too. A Jew, a personal physician of Pope Innocent VIII, tried to save him from illness, and gave the pontiff the blood of three children to drink. But it does not work. The children died and also the Pope.
That which happened in the Vatican, without a doubt, was the first attempt at a blood transfusion, even if it had been oral. But two hundred years later the first one was successful. And then, with current science, it is common practice in every hospital in the world. But you have to be alert because the blood transfusion is just beginning.
A few years ago, at Stanford University, a team of scientists, through complex surgery, unified the circulatory system of two young and two old mice, and all four began to share the same blood. Days ago they had examined the brain of the mice, and all their vital indicators. And here came the shocking: The old mice rejuvenated and increased brain cells, and improved the heart, bones and muscles. In contrast, normal growth of cells stagnated in young mice.
Ambrosia: that was the food of the Greek gods to be immortal. And it is also the name of a new and powerful company whose business is to make transfusions of young people to the elderly. The company is financed by people of advanced age and great economic resources. It's not Dracula's novel, no. It is the reality of our times.
For US $ 8,000, elderly patients receive blood from very young people. And even the nascent anti-aging business, investments are beginning to flow from the billionaires who have made their money in the internet world. Someone said that the old people have sucked our blood in many ways and that now, apparently, the turn is for young people.
In chess, as in life, there are inevitable endings.
1: Qf7; Kxf7 2: f7+; Kf8 3: Kf5 CheckMate.
This story was originally written by my friend Ramiro Díez in Diario EL TELÉGRAFO under the following address: https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/columnistas/1/el-regreso-de-dracula-pero-de-verdad-verdad If you are going to use it, please quote our source and place a link to the original note. www.eltelegrafo.com.ec