The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-26
sgrAsplNe pAYsIeAL DecAY.
How Life Gould ~ Prolonged 70 Nearly
Twice Ita usnaI Length.

How Life Gouth IF prolonged 20 Nearly
Twice Its psnaI 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 ossiflc
blockages In the system An English
physicinn, DR.. c. r. De lacy Evans.
who made many researches IN regard 10
our food, comes to the Conclusion that
more fruit should be eaten, especially
apples. grapes and bananas they being
rich in nutritious clements Being de-
ticient in nitrogen. they are best for
elderly people, as they keep The blood
in a better condition than flesh
Flourcns, in his well-lsnown work on
Human Longevity cites the case II
the Italian centcnnrian CornaTo whose
recipe for health and long life was ex-
tremc moderation in all things Flour
ems himself insists that century Is the
normal life. but the fifty years beyond,
and even two hundred years, are human
possibilities under advantageous condi-
tionS. Hufcland also believed Ia two
hundred years as an extreme limit.
Sir james Crichton Browne, M. D.. con-
cedes, in late address, that Elourcns
was right Duration Of growth gives
the length Of life. IIufcland held that
the human body grows till The uge of
twenty-five, and that eight times the
growth period was the utmost limit of
man. But If twenty years besfal,en as
the time Of growth, even five times that
will give us a century. According TO
Flourcns and Cuvier. man Is OF the frn-
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 like the cows and
hcrbivorous ones. 1ntestines in the
man are seven or eight times the length
of the body; the lions are but three
times the length of his body. Herbiy-
orous animals. like the COW. have in-
testines forty-eight times the length Of
the body.
So, Judging man by his teeth, his
stomach and his intestines, hesis natu-
rally and primitively frugivorons. 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 ingfis one
hundred and tifty-third year. and was
dissected by tile celebrated diseoverer
of the circulation of the blood, DIR. Wil-
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. A eli
mate that allows much outdoor living
is the best for health. More depends
on food than on any climate. Exer-
else. fresh air TO live in and to sleep in,
daily bathing and freedom from.m edi-
cine are the important things. In July,
1893, the Conrier-Iournal, of Louisville.
published n long account of James Me-
Mullin. who died in Carlisle county.
KY. at one hundred and seventeen
years of age. When Button, Hufeland,
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 20 he laughed at.