Hydropathy, health and longevity.

  • Constantine, Joseph.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Hydropathy, health and longevity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    knowledge of languages while he was serving an apprenticeship to shoemaking. These three distinguished men never spared themselves in any undertaking to which they put their hands. At the same time, it ought to be stated that in no part of their lives have they wantonly injured their health and wasted their vital power by sowing wild oats and reaping tares. Such specimens of health and activity, and such useful lives as we have in these octogenarians, ought to be the rule, not the rare exception. The question of diet and hygiene is surely worthy the attention of all men who desire to perform in the best possible way the duties for which they were sent into the world. In the fifth chapter of Genesis we read of some remarkable long ages. It may be said that in those far off days there was no reliable record of births and deaths, and that the long ages mentioned in that chapter are not sufficiently authenticated, but we are not justified in passing them by as worthless. We have reliable record of many who have lived in more recent times to ages that seem to us incredible; and the diet of some, in fact most of those, has not been selected on scientific principles, if it has been suitable, just adopted by chance or mere accident. Thomas Parr, a native of Shropshire, is a man often referred to, who was perfectly healthy at one hundred and fifty-two years of age, when taken to
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