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On Longevity.
was forty years of age * . I met with one man beyond 80 , who hadsurvived a most violent attack of the yellow fever ; a second , who had had several of his bones fractured by falls and in frays , and many who had frequently been affected by intermittent ... I met with one man of 86 , who had all his life been subject to syncope : another who had been for fifty years occasionally affected by a cough f ; and two
instances of men who had been affected for forty years with obstinate head-achs ¦ % . I met with only one person beyond 80 who had ever been affected by a disorder in the stomach : and in him it rose from an occasional rupture . Mr . John Strangeways Hutton , of Philadelp hia , who died last year in the 100 th year of his age , informed me that he never had puked in his life . This circumstance is the more
remarkable as he passed several years at ' sea when a young man § . These facts tmy serve to extend , our ideas of the importance of a healthful state of the stomach in the animal ceconomy , and thereby to add to our knowledge in the prognosis of diseases , and in the chances of human life .. 8 . I have not found the loss of teeth to affect the duration of human
life so much as " mig ht be expected . Edward Drinker , who lived , to ' be 10 j years old , lost his teeth 30 years before he died , from drawing the hot smoke of tobacco into his mouth through a short pipe . 9 . I have not observed baldness , or grey hairs , occurring in early or middle life , to prevent old age . In one of the histories furnished me by Le Sayre , I find an account of a man of 80 , whose hair began to assume a silver colour when he was . only eleven years of age . I shall conclude this head by the following remark—Notwithstanding there appears in the human body a certain . capacity
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Longevity.
was forty years of age * . I met with one man beyond 80 , who hadsurvived a most violent attack of the yellow fever ; a second , who had had several of his bones fractured by falls and in frays , and many who had frequently been affected by intermittent ... I met with one man of 86 , who had all his life been subject to syncope : another who had been for fifty years occasionally affected by a cough f ; and two
instances of men who had been affected for forty years with obstinate head-achs ¦ % . I met with only one person beyond 80 who had ever been affected by a disorder in the stomach : and in him it rose from an occasional rupture . Mr . John Strangeways Hutton , of Philadelp hia , who died last year in the 100 th year of his age , informed me that he never had puked in his life . This circumstance is the more
remarkable as he passed several years at ' sea when a young man § . These facts tmy serve to extend , our ideas of the importance of a healthful state of the stomach in the animal ceconomy , and thereby to add to our knowledge in the prognosis of diseases , and in the chances of human life .. 8 . I have not found the loss of teeth to affect the duration of human
life so much as " mig ht be expected . Edward Drinker , who lived , to ' be 10 j years old , lost his teeth 30 years before he died , from drawing the hot smoke of tobacco into his mouth through a short pipe . 9 . I have not observed baldness , or grey hairs , occurring in early or middle life , to prevent old age . In one of the histories furnished me by Le Sayre , I find an account of a man of 80 , whose hair began to assume a silver colour when he was . only eleven years of age . I shall conclude this head by the following remark—Notwithstanding there appears in the human body a certain . capacity