Delves into the use of the rejuvenation therapy as an anti-aging treatment in the 1920's which is illustrated in the novel of Gertrude Atherton "Black Oxen." Representation of the novel of a collaboration between literature and science that both registered and shaped American attitudes toward science as a means of restoring the individual and the nation to health; Rejuvenation narrative of Atherton that depicts an evolutionary shift in the literature of science; Excerpts from the novel.