The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24
RULES TO PROLONG !
LIFE AND VIGOR
TheoretieaIly.Man Ought TO Be Able to
Live Forever.
IF WASTE AND REPAIR WERE EQUAL
The Problem of Indefinite Longevity
Would Resolved, Except for Acct.
dent; but Even as II Is, II Is Posi-.
BILE to Extend the average Age Of
Man MateriaIIy.. sL... '..t 3D.,

dent; but Even as II Is, IL Is Posi-.
bic to Extend the Average Age Of
Man Materially. L... '..t :.,
'If the. repair were always Identical
with the waste. life. would then only
be terminated by accident never, by
old age" This is a fact well known
to all who have investigated the sub
ject. though @. II. Lewis. in his Phys
iology of Common Life" makes the
statement quoted. In early years this
balance of the human system is adj
mirably preserved. As man advances
in life, however, and gets up to 80 ..or
60, he begins to get stiff in the Joints,
and experiences what he calls feel
ing his age" Renovation of various
organs of the body depends on : the
blood, and II this supply is not at all
times furnished In sufficient quantity
and quality, a gradual deterioration
takes place. Heart and arteries be
come clogged, and the whole delicate
machinery. suffers from the, lackt-of
nourishment Deposits of phosphate
and carbonate of lime accumulate, and
the change is really chemical one,
by which the blood is hindered, from
going to the extremities of the system
and fulfilling its work. Of repair and
renovation. Old age, then, is the. result
of a change in the blood, which be-
cones overloaded with earthly salts,
leaves it's refuse matter In the system,
and the valves of the heart become
cartilaginous Becoming. thus, the
heart is not able to propel the blood. to
it's destination. . Arteries, also hav-
ing become ossified, a still, further OBJ
struction takes place, and the whole
body languishes. Blood Is life. If it. Is
kept continually in good, order our
years are prolonged. New. bodies, as
in youth and early. manhood do; not
accumulate these fibrinous and gelatin
Gus deposits which, as the years go by,
help the gradual process of ossifcation
and cause the decrepitude of.age. Now,
If some means were discovered by
which the blood could be- kept in con-
dition like that. of youth, It would
throw off these earthly, salts
which obstruct the action of the heart
and arteries. Our food and drink
make our, blood. 1t seems, then, that
1t is to them we should look primarily
for the quality of it. s>.
EAl MINE II iNOii'
Without eating and. drinking, there
is no life; hut we may select certain
kinds of foods containing a minimum
amount of the, clements which cause
the ossific blockages in the. system. An
English physician, DR.. G. F, De; Lacy
Evans, who made many researches in
regard to our food. comes to the con-
clusion that more fruit should be. eat
en-. especially apples grapes and ban
anas, they being rich in nutritious ele-
ments. Being deficient in nitrogen,
they are best for elderly people, as they
keep the blood in a better Condition
than flesh. After the age of so people
should eat less beef and mutton, and
use more apples and nuts Of all kinds,
the latter being rich in rndtiy' Of the
nutritious elements of meat, Fish and
poultry have not the objectionable
earth salts of beef. In order to retard
physical decay and to keep the blood
in a wholesome condition distilled
water is recommended, 1t has solvent
qualities which act upon the eapth salts
in the blood and expel them from the
body. A goblet of this water taken
three times a day, with ten or fifteen
drops of diluted phosphoric acid i'm each
glass, has a tendency to assist the
blood in. eliminating the opstrueting
salts. A man is as old as his arteries.
If they are soft and compressible the
deteriorating effects of old age have
not appeared '. >-&r :'s->
Flcurens in his well-known work, on
Human longevity. cites the case OF
the Italian centenarian Cornaro; whose
recipe for health and long life was ex-
treme moderation in all thingsi-2 Flour
ems himself insists that century is the
FORMAL life, but that 80 years beyond,
and even 200 years. are human possi-
bllities under advantageous conditions.
HufeIand also believed in 200 years as
an extreme limit. Sir James Crichton
Browne, M. D., comedies, in late
address, that Flourens was right. Du-
ration of growth gives the length OF
life. Hufeland held that the human
body grows until the age Of 25, and
that eight times the growth period was
the utmost limit of man. But II 20
years be taken as the time of growth,
even five times that will give US a CEN
tury. .~...
EXERCISE is IMPORTANT.
According to Flourens and Cuvier
man is Of the frugivorous or fruit and
nut-eating class Of animals, like the
gorillas and other apes and monkeys.
Man has NOT ttaafh like the Hons and