Modern Methuselahs or, Short biographical sketches of a few advanced nonagenarians or actual centenarians who were distinguished in art, science, literature, or philanthropy : also, brief notices of some individuals remarkable chiefly for their longevity / by John Burn Bailey.
- Bailey, John Burn.
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Modern Methuselahs or, Short biographical sketches of a few advanced nonagenarians or actual centenarians who were distinguished in art, science, literature, or philanthropy : also, brief notices of some individuals remarkable chiefly for their longevity / by John Burn Bailey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![that cataract continued to advance in the other eye, and that her aunt had developed a new feature : she had begun to see sights— plains, trees, fields, houses, children : all pleasant objects except twice; on one occasion she saw women at the window making faces at her, and on another, horrid-looking men presented themselves to her vision. On March 12th, 1886, within forty-eight hours of her one hundred and fourth birthday, the soul and body which had been companions so long parted company, death arising, Dr. Pike considered, from exhaustion, hastened by the severe weather. About six weeks previously she got an attack, serious, of pneumonia of the bases of both lungs. This passed through its ordinary course, and she threw off the disease won- derfully, the lung clearing up well, leaving only the state of chronic bronchitis from] which she had lately suffered. Of course, her strength was much lowered by the attack, and she never thoroughly regained it. Some three weeks before death, her brain began to show evidence of her exhaustion, by its failing power, drowsiness, etc., although her mind, up to this time, had remained remarkably clear. Five days before her death she had a convulsive seizure, and, although this passed oflf, she gradually became less and less clear, taking less nourishment, and finally, as it were, slept away. Her marvellous power of vitality was shown by her so thoroughly throwing off such a severe pneumonia, which would Iiave killed many a far younger woman. Such a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21444080_0445.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
