Dissertatio medica inauguralis de senectute / [Thomas Shapter].

  • Thomas Shapter
Date:
1831
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis de senectute / [Thomas Shapter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mum durabant, sed memoria et visus ali- quamdiu ante mortem deficere coeperunt. An- no aetatis centesimo quinquagesimo secundo, ut regem qui de eo quaesivit videret, Londinen- sem iter fecit, et paulo post vita decessit, quum plus aequo comedisset, cibo nimium su- avi et cui non solitus erat apud comitem Arun- del potitus. Ferme dicitur nulum morbum in aliquá parte cadaveris sectione corporis cerni; verun- tamen id non esse penitus ex eo quod Harveius celeberrimus dicit, patet.* * * As to the observations made by Dr. Harvey upon the per- son and dissection of Thomas Parr, it is noted, Ist. That he was a poor countryman of Shropshire, whence he was brought up by the Right Hon. Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, and that he died (November 14, 1635,) after he had outlived nine princes and during the reign of the tenth, at the age of 152 years and 9 months. 2d. That being opened after his death, (November 19,) his body was found yet very fleshy, his breast hairy, his genitals unimpaired, serving not a little to confirm the report of his hav- ing undergone public censure for his incontinency; especially seeing that after that time, viz. at the age of 120 years he mar- ried a widow, who owned * Eum cum ipsa rem habuisse ut alii