Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year, of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799, comprising a period of 1733 years. With anecdotes of the most remarkable / by James Easton.

Date:
1799
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Credit: Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year, of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799, comprising a period of 1733 years. With anecdotes of the most remarkable / by James Easton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    e • expofed to the freth air, and whole food is plain and moderate, as farmers, gar- * deners, filhermen, labourers, foldiers, &c.; and fuch men, as perhaps never employed their thoughts on the means which have been ufed to promote Longevity. It is amongll thefe people, chiefly, that the mdfl: aftonifliing inftances of it are to be obferved. Sometimes, in thefe fltuations, man ftill attains to the amazing age of one hundred and fifty years, and upwards. And here I cannot deny myfelf the pleafure of giving a more particular account of fome of Jhefe infliances j for, in cafes of this ]cind, the mofl: trifling circumflance is often in-s terefting, and may be of importance. The Angular cafe of Henry Jenkins, of Ellerton-upon-Swale, Yorkfhire, who died in the year 1670, at the very advanced age of one hundred and Jixty~nine yearSy as re- corded in the Philofophical I'ranfadiions, ought to be more generally known than it is, A few year^ before his death, he ap-