The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-04-19
RETARDING PHYSICAL DECAY.
How Life Could BE Prolonged to Nearly
Twice Its Usual Length


Without eating and drinking there is
no life; but we may select certain kinds
of food containing minimum amount
of the elements which cause the ossifi,.
blockages in the system. An English
physician, DIR. c. f. De Lacy Evans.
who made many researches in regard to
our food, comes to the conclusion that
more fruit should be eaten. especially
apples. grapes and bananas, they being
rich in nutritious elements. Being de
hcient in nitrogen. they are best for
elderly people, as they keep the blood
in better condition than flesh.
FIourens. in his well-knOwn work on
Human Longevity" cites the ease of
the Italian centenarian Cornaro. whose
recipe for health and long life was ex-
tremc moderation in all things. Flour
ems himself insists that a century is the
normal life, but the fifty years beyond.
and even two hundred years. are human
possibilities under advantageous condi-
tiOnS. llufeland also believed in two
hundred years as an extreme limit
Sir James Crichton Browne. VI. d.. con
cedcS, in a late address. that Eloureus
was right. Duration of growth gives
the length of life. llufeland held that
the human body grows till the age of
twenty-five, and that eight times the
growth period was the utmost limit of
man But if twenty years be taken as
the time of growth, even five times that
Will give Us a century. According To
Flourens and Cuvier, man is of the fru-
givorOus or fruit and nut-eating class
of animals, like the gorillas and other
apes and monkeys. Man has not teeth
like the lions and carnivorous beasts
neither has he teeth Ike the cows and
herbivorous ones. IntestInes in the
man are seven or eight times the length
of the body; the lions are but three
times the length of his body. IIerbiv-
oruuS animals. like the COW. have in
tcstineS forty-eight times the length of
the body.
SO. Judging man by his teeth. his
stomach and his intestines. ne 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 the effect of certain climates
perhaps too much stress has been laid
upon that. We find that Thomas Parr.
who lived in England, died in his one
hundred and tifty-third year, and was
diSsected by the celebrated discoverer
of the circulation of the blood. DIR. Viii
liam Harvey twhO expressed no doubt
of his age, WAS never out of his native
country. Accounts of men who have
lived To extreme age in Ecuador and
Mexico indicate possibilities. y eli
mate that allows much outdoor living
is the best for health. More depends
on food than on any climate. ENer-
daily bathing and freedom from medi-
cine are the Important things. In July.
1898. the Couricr-Journal.o of Louisville.
published a long account of James Me
Mullin. who died in Carlisle county.
Ky, at one hundred and seventeen
years of age. When Button. Ilulcland.
Flourens, and men of that class. who
had studied the subject. believed in the
possibility of one hundred and fifty or
two hundred years of life, the subject
is not to be laughed at.