The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-10
MAY LIVE FOR
1000 YEARS.
Or. Cuflss Promises Long Life
TO All Human Beings.
PARASITISM MUST Be KILLED.
Would Establish College Costing $780,
100000 for Teaching Hygiene.
WRITES OPEN LETTER TO CARNEGIE.
Establishment Of Such an Institution Would In,ur-
urals an Era In Worlds Evolution Mere Striking
and Inst ucins Than The Christian Era.

Joliet, ILL.,. July 1o.-Dr. Romaine T
Curtiss. OF this city, an eminent author
ity and writer on bacteriology. who for
merly held the chair or uhls science In
the Chicago College Of Physicians and
Surgeons, has written an omen letter
TO Andrew Carnegie in which he states
that IL the human being adapts hds en-
vironment to his life and the posstb,li.
ties OF his organism he can live 600
years; that the secret of long life Is the
destruction OF parasitism, and than the
establishment Of AN institution for the
teaching or hygiene would require S50
600, 900 but would be the greatest invest
ment made for human welfare since the
birth Of Christianity.
Further. he invites Mr.. Carnegie to
supply the necessary money and so be-
come the worlds greatest benefactor to
mankind. DR.. Curtiss writes IN mart.
THE average longevity Is from 25 TO
30 years. and the average death rate
is 22 per thousand. One person in a
million lives TO be a hundred years old.
1T is quite the fashion for newspa-
pers TO send a reporter to the centen-
arian and see IL the science of long life
tunately. too many of these centenariz
ans drank liquor and were tobacco
users from their youth to the hundredth
year. How did they get this immunity? :?
1t was acquired by natural selection
In the great struggle OF humanity
against parasitism.
ITO live forever is the suggestion of
a prayer cut short by accurate fact and
hopelessness; but j am prophet enough
TO say that money is destined to make
the average longevity Of man 1000 years.
IL will be done by education in the sci
ence Of all sciences-hygiene.
The absolute destruction OF parasit-
is min life, morals and physics will dc
this work. There is no law of nature
which contradicts this proposition. That
the world would become over populated
is not true. for IL is a law that births
are in direct relation to longevity-the
larger the averages OF life the less
births.
1T is a scientific truth that parasit.
ism in life, morals and physics will do
absolute destruction of parasitism can
increase the duration of life to 1000
years.
The whole tendency and custom Of
the world is to shorten life. Latterly
/ new energy of the most powerful pro-
portions is at work to slide the scale
II hereditary length OF days a notch
'urther toward infancy. This is the
custom of employing only young men
md discharging all the old hands at 30
'ears of age. This force alone in a hun
lred years from now will be in their
'rime at % and unfit at 40
THE establishment OF an institution,
university. in Chicago. for the teach
ng of hygiene and it's collateral sci
noes would inaugurate an era in the
rorld's evolution. more striking and
1structive than the Christian era. IL
1ould signalize the destruction OF
,oral and physical parasitism, the abo-
tion OF disease. and would increase
he average duration of life to 1000
ears.
Andrew Carnegie can do this work.
will require 0000, ,000."