Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-13
How to ProlOng Life.

The Longest Possible Duration of Gid Age
 Diet ant. Living.
 [lr W, c. Dawson in Knowledgs.l
 Moderation in eating must ever be of great value as an agent for retarding the advent of senility. Large eaters more rapidly bring about these ossifc deposits. owing to having taken more food into the stomach than it is able ta utilize or excrete, the result being, naturally, more rapid blockags. Accord ing to the researches of MT. De Lacy Evans it would appear that the following articles of food contain least of the earth's salts: 1, Fruits, chiefly owing to their laRI of nitro gen. 9. Fish and paaitry. D. Young mutt ton and veal. ald mutton and beef from age contain large quantity of earthly matter.
 It becomes self-evident, therefore, that living moderately and as much as possible on 8 diet containing 8 minimum amount of earthly particles is clearly more suitable in order to retard old age and thereby prolong existence. The most rational treatment with view to retard old age is in the first place to endsavor as far as possible to counteract the excessive aciion of the atmospheric oxygen secondly, to retard the deposit of ossiAc matter and as far possible to dissolve partially formed calcareous concre- tions. Distilled water and diluted phosphorie acid are believed by MT. de Lacy Evans te have the desired effect. WAen considering their special action ws cannot but fully coincide with hfHa as to their efficacy in retaraiag old age by their combined chemical action. Now, distilled water alone has powerful action, owing to its solvent properties, thereby dissolving and ezcretins the excess of earthly salts which otherwise harnrna a6 khn orukAu gradually storing up those bloekages which in time caqss cid age. The solvent proper ties of distilled water are SO great per SC that on distillatien ia vessels it actually dissolves eEaau particles of them. Nov the generality of waters contain more or less carbonate of lime, and are to be avoided, especially those from chalky soils, tending, as they do, to produce calcareous deposits. The action of distilled water as beverage Is briefly as fol- lows: First, it's absorption into the blood is rapid second, it keeps soluble those salts already existing in the blood, thereby pre- cluding their undue deposit third. it faciIi- tates in 8 marked degree their elimination by daily use of distilled water is highly benefl- cial to those aesirous of retarding old age, and it is also a useful adjunct for averting stone in the bladder and kidneys.
 Lastly we have to deal with the special beneficial action of diluted phosphoric acid when mixed with Distilled water and con- stunned daily. If we'll diluted with distilled water it is perhaps the most powerful means known to science for suspending old age. Diluted phosphorie acid possesses the follow ing merits: It produces tho accumulation of earthly salts and also facilitates their elimina- tion. Secondly. by it's great affinity for oxy- gen, those hbrinous and gelatinous deposits previously alluded to are held in abeyanoe by it's use. Thus by it's double agency, con- bined with distilled water, we have most valuable preventive against the primary causes of old age, which it's daily use holds in check. Hypophosphstes are believed to exercise like action, as on becoming phos-