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. With an introductory chapter on "long-lasting".

  • Bailey, John Burn.
Date:
1888
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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. With an introductory chapter on "long-lasting". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    distinctly show tlic value of strict modei'ation iu catiug and drinking, ;ind the advantage of very little, if any, indulgence in alcoholic beverages. They also exhibit the very interesting fact that many very aged people retain a wonderful power of combating serious diseases, for many of the sixty- six individuals in Professor Humphry's lists were attacked with severe illnesses after they were ninety- five years old, but from which they made singularly rapid and complete recoveries. All these conclusions are on the whole strengthened, or little disturbed, by eight hundred and twenty-four additional cases—ages ranging from eighty to one hundred years—which were given in the same journal, under the same authority, on the 10th of ]\Iarch of this year (1888), again followed by the valuable analysis of Professor Humphry. From these it is proved that nearly one-fourth of the individuals in question were first-born children ; that nearly one-half of them were of placid disposition ; that ten per cent, of them were in affluent circumstances; thirty- five per cent, were poor; while fifty-five per cent, were in a comfortable condition of life. Only four per cent, are recorded as having had bad digestion ; and only eleven were of low mental power, seventy-four per cent, being of average intelligence, and fifteen per cent, possessing higli intellectual capacity. Sixty per cent, were moderate eaters; thirty per cent, were small eaters; nine per cent, were large eaters. In respect to the longevity of