The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-11-19
PRoLoSsIAe A HUMAN LIFE BY RULE.

PR0l0N6lH6 4 HUMAN LIFE By RULE.
DR.. D'Unger, a Chicago physician,
published statement a few days
ago in which he asserted that he
had discovered a plan whereby hu-
man life might be prolonged almost
indefinitely. There is no such
thing as natural death, be asserted.
Life never deserts a good, healthy
body, and people might just as
we'll live to be 100 or more as to
die off by the million before the
age of 80. After forty-six years of
investigation and study DR.. D'Unger
has concluded that man is a self
repairing machine; that to mix the
blood and cram the body with
nasty drugs to correct an injury to
some particular one of the many
organs is most pernicious; that,
after all is said and done, nature is
the great doctor, and if drugs are
administered at all it must be with
judicious care, aiming at nothing
more than to assist nature in her
work of prevention and cure.
This physician looks upon disease
as an accident and not a necessity.
If perfectly healthy men, with
strong blood in their veins, would
marry none but healthy and strong
blooded women, and vice versa,
upon his theory 100 years from
now the earth would be peopled
with a race of human beings along
side OF. which the present members
of the population would seem as
pigmles. Doctors, exceptin surgery,
would no longer be needed. People
would die, he admits, but none of
disease. Casualties, wars and wrecks
would keep down the population.
Nearly all mankind would live to
be centenarians if they kept away
from buzz saws, and life would be
sweeter and happier in every way.
He points out that there is no fixed
limit to human life and cites the
records for one instance in which
$40 years were attained. Here is
the prescription: To avoid sickness
you must give proper attention to
the body and its nutrition. To
prolong life you must hearken to
the voice of nature and obey her
laws. These terms are very general,
but they present the doctors theory
in a nutshell. In Chicago there are
other theorists on longevity, who
seem to think the days of antedi-
luvians are about to return. "One
Hundred Years on Earth" in nice
big gilt letters is the legend en-
blazoned on the facade of a red
brick house in Wabash avenue near
Twenty-frst street. This school OF
longevity is founded on the doctrine
of the late Father Kneipp, who in.
vented the simple method known
as the "Kneipp cure" The Kneipp
cure hinges very largely upon the
practice of getting up in the morn.
ing before sunrise and walking bare.
foot in the dewy grass.
There is a fad in England much
talked about this year, which offers
people the reward of life on earth
of 10 years if they will adopt a
certain special diet and implicitly
follow out the prescribed regimen
This tad requires cooks and kltch
ems to be abolished, while bread
meat and vegetables are forbidden
Existence is to be maintained ex
-clusively upon nuts and bananas
Comparing this with the dietary
system of Dickens, which representa-
that of his period, his comparative
ly early decease will excite no sur
prise. According to English stand
ards, he was an accomplished gas
tronome. Beefsteak pudding was
his ideal, a horrible concoction fl
only for a crude or debased palate
His highest conception of dinne
was roast leg of mutton with tn,
bone removed and the cavity fillet
with stuffing of oysters and veal
This was accompanied with gil
punch, in the making of which