Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-02-16

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oc .la Understanding, or by the defect or
weakness Of the other stimuli wh'ch keep
Nm the motions of life.
W = Mutrimony. In the course of my In
o,;ries. met with only one person beyond
ciohty years of age who had never been
married. | met with several women who
had borne from ten to twenty children, and
sucked them all. met with ono woman,
q native of Hercfordshirc, in England, who
was in the Tooth year Of her age, who had
borne child at 60, and frequently sucked
two of her children Though born in success
sion to each other) at the same time. She
had passed the greatest part of her Lie over
washing tub. Of forty peroons who died lied
in different parts of the world, above 50
wears of age, in the year 1906, there was
but one of them that had not been married.
A majority of them were women.
6. emigration. / have observed many
instances of Europeans who have arrived
in America in the decline of life, who have
acquired fresh vigor from the impression of
our climate, and of now objects, upon their
bodies and minds; and whose lives, in con-
sequence thereof appeared to have been
prolonged for many years. Ihls influence
of climate upon longevity is not confined to
the United States. or 100 European
Spaniards, who cnigratc to South America
| in early life, 10 live to be above 80, whereas
but 8 or 9 native Spaniards. and but In
dians. of the same number, exceed the 50th
| year of human life.
7. / have not found sedentary employ
ments to prevent long life, where they are
not accompanied by lntemperance in eating
! or drinking. This observation is not con-
fined to literary men, nor to women only IN
whom longevity, without much exercise OF
body, has been frequently observed. met
with one instance Of a weaver; second OF
a silyersmth: and a third of shoemaker;
among the number Of old people, whose his
tories have suggested these observations.
8. have not found that acute, nor that
ali chronic diseases shorten human lite.
DR.. Franklin had too successive eomlcas
Tabsccsses] in his lungs before nc was 4O
wears old. Imet with one man beyond ~,
who had survived r most violent attack OF
the yellow fever; a second who had had
several of his bones fractured by falls, and
in frays and manv, what had been frequent
" affected by intermittents. | met with one
man of sc, who had all his life been subject
to svncopc [fainting]; another, who had
for SO years been occasionally affected by
cough, \ and two instances of men, who
had been afflicted for forty years with OBJ
stipatc headaches.+ / met with only one
person beyond 80, who had ever been attec-
ted by I, disease in tho stouiae1i; and IN him
il arose from an occasional rupture. MIR.
John Strangeways Hutton, of this city, who
died in 1893, in the 1O9th year of his age,
informed me, that he had never puked in his
life. This circumstance is the more re-
markable, as he passed several years at sea
when q Young man.t These facts may
serve to extend our ideas of the importance
of healthy state of the stomach in the an
imal economy; and thereby to add to our
knowledge of the prognosis of diseases, and
in the chances of human life. (a)
9. Ihave not found the lcss Of teeth to
affect the duration Of homan life, so much
as might be expected. Edward Drinkcr,
who lived to be lO3 years old, lost his teeth
thirty years before he died, from drawing
the hot smoke of tobacco through short
pipe:
Or. Sayre. Of New Jersey, to whom |
am indebted for several valuable histories
of old persons, mentions one man, aged 81,
whose teeth began to decay at l6, and an
other of 90, who lost his teeth thirty years
before he saw him. The gums, by becom-
ing hard, perform, in part, the office OF teeth.
But may not the gastric Juice OF the stom.
ach, like the tears and urine, become acrId
BY age, and thereby supply, by mere dis
solving power, the defect Of n'astica1lon
sThis mans only remedy for his cough was
| tho fine powder of dry Indian turnip, and honey.
DR.. Thiery saws, that he did not find the :tch,
or slight degrees Of the kprosy, to prevent lon
gevity.
tThe venerable old man, whose history first
suggested this rsmark, was born IN New York
in the wear 1854 His grandfather lived to be
1Ol, but was unable to walk for thirty years be-
fore he died, from nm excessive quantity OF tat.
His mother died at g. His constant drinks
water, beer, and cider. He had fixed dislike to
spirits of all kinds. His appetite was good and
he ate plon,tully during the last years of his life
lie seldom drank any thing between his meals.
He never was intoxicated but twice in his life,
and that was wlTcn boy, and at sea, where he
remembers perfectly we'll to have celebrated by a
feu de joye, the birthday of queen Anne. lie
| ,,,, ,f1;cfod ,ri,l, tbn ba,J,olo ,.j
giddiness, but never had fever, except from the
| smallpox, in the course of his life His pulse
was slow, but regular. He had been twice mar
ried. BY his first wife he had eight, and by his
second seventeen children. One of them lived
| to be e3 years Of age. He was about five feet