The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-04-18
RETARDING PHYSICAL. DECAY.
How Lifo Could 10 Prolonged to Nearly
Twice Its Usual LcnStll


How Lifo Could 10 Prolonged to Nearly
Twice Its Usual LcnSth
Without eating and drinking thero Is
no life; but we may select certain kinds
of food containing u minimum amount
OF the elements which cause tho ossitlo
blooltages in tho system. An English
physician, DR.. G. II. Do Lacy Evans,
who made many researches in regard to
our food, comes to tho conclusion that
moro fruit should be eaten, especially
apples, grapes and bananas, they being
rich In nutritious elements. Being de-
tioient IN nitrogen, they arc best for
pldsrly people, as they keep the blood
IN O better condition than flesh.
Flourens, In his wcll-known work on
"Human Longevity" cites the case Of
tho Italian centoDarian Cornnro, whose
recipe for health and long lifo was ex-
tremo moderation IN all things Flour
ems himself insists that century Is tho
normal life, but the fifty years beyond,
and even two hundred years, are human
possibilities under advantageous condi-
ttons. Hufeland also believed In two
hundred years as an extreme limit.
Sir James Criohton Browne, Nj. D., con-
eedes, In a lato address, that Flourens
was right. Duration Of growth gives
the length of life. Hufeland held that
the human body grows till the ago Of
twenty-five, and that eight times tho
growth period was the utmost limit Of
man. But If twenty years be taken az
the time Of growth, even five times that
Will give us u century. According to
Flourens and Ouvier man is of the fru-
givorous or fruit and nut-cating GLASS
Of animals, like the gorillas and other
apes and monkeys. Man has not teeth
like tho lions and carnivorous beasts,
neither has he teeth Nike the COWS and
herbivorous ones Intestlnes In the
man are seven Or eight times tho length
of tho body, tho lions are but three
times tho length Of his body. Hcrbiv-
orous animals, like the COW, have in
testines forty-eight times tho length Of
the body.
So, Judging man by his teeth, his
stomach aud his intestines, he Is natu-
rally and primitively frugivorous, and
was not Intended to eat flesh. Fruit is
aperient, and apples act on the liver,
and are good brain food also,
as they contain much phosphoric acid.
AS to tho effect Of certain climates,
PoA WV iuuSll bUTSSS HIS USSu ldlu
upon that. We find that Thomas Pa ~,
who lived in England, died in his one
hundred and fifty-third year. and was
dissected by the celebrated discovcrcr
Of tho circulation Of the blood, DR.. Will
liam Harvey (who expressed no doubt
| OF his age), was never ont of his native
country. Accounts Of men who hava
lived TO- extreme ago in Ecuador and
Mexico Indicate possibilities. eli
mate that allows much outdoor living
| is the best for hcalth More depends
on food than on any clrlntr f,%Hr,
ciso, fresh air to 1.-Two in and To sleep in
daily bathing and freedom from m"hi
cine arc the Important things III July
1893, the Couricr-J ournal, of Louisville
published long account Of James Nc
Mullin, who died In Carlisle county
KY, at one hundred and seventies
years OF age. When Button, TIufeland
Flourens, and mon of that class, VIII,
had studied the subject, believed in tn,
possibility of ono h,fndred and fifty o.
two hundred years Of life, tho subjec
Is not to be laughed at.