Preventive treatment and cure of aging phenomena; action of novocaine as eutrophic and rejuvenating factor
clinical paper · 1957
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SUMMARY
Early paper by Constantin Ion Parhon (Aslan's senior collaborator and the founding figure of Romanian gerontology) and Ana Aslan, advancing the use of novocaine (procaine) as a 'eutrophic and rejuvenating factor' for the prevention and treatment of aging phenomena. Cited as a foundational statement of the procaine-against-aging program out of which Gerovital H3 was developed. Citation metadata copied from the NCBI PubMed MEDLINE record on 2026-06-03: title '[Preventive treatment and cure of aging phenomena; action of novocaine as eutrophic and rejuvenating factor]', journal 'Revue des sciences medicales' (Rev Sci Med 1957;2:5-21), authors Parhon CI and Aslan A, language French (LA: fre), PMID 13579904. No DOI is indexed for this journal; it is cited by its PubMed record.
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This 1957 paper by Parhon and Aslan is an early statement of the Romanian procaine-against-aging program. C. I. Parhon was the senior figure of Romanian gerontology under whom Aslan worked; the paper frames novocaine (procaine) as a preventive and curative agent for aging phenomena, the line of work that produced Gerovital H3. It is cited for the origin and early framing of the anti-aging claim.