The sun., 1901-04-06
posTpoNING OLD AGE.
Suggestions as to Means Of Prolong-
ing Life Through Use of Ger
tain Foods.

In an article on "Postponing Old Age
by William Kinnear, in the Medical Age,
the author says:
'Retarding physical decay and thus
producing possible suspension of old
age is not so visionary as it may seem in
the present startling period of strange
discoveries. The possibility of living 200
years in average good health seems to
many wild sort of scientific dream.
Every week, though, we read of people
who have lived to be 100 and 11O years
old Let us not be surprised at anything.
We cannot defy death, but we may by
searching find secrets of Nature and
apply them to the renewal of the organs
| whose decay is constantly going ON in
| the body. Anatomical experiment and
\ investigation shows that the chief char
acteristics of old age are deposits of
eartny matter of geatnous and
| tibrinous character in the human sys-
| TEN. Carbonate and phosphate of lime,
mixed with other salts of calcareous
nature, have been found to furnish the
greater part of these earthly deposits
| AS observation shows, man begins in a
| gelatinous condition; he ends in an os-
seous or bony one-soft in infancy hard
in old age. By gradual change in the
long space of years the ossification comes
on. hut after middle life is passed more
marked development of the ossific char
acter takes place. OF course these
earthly deposits, which affect all the
physical organs, naturally interfere with
their functions. Partial Justification of
the heart produces the imperfect circu-
lation Of the blood which affects the
aged When the arteries are clogged
with calcareous matter there is inter
ference with the circulation upon which
nutrition depends. Without nutrition
! there is no repair of the body. To repair
the waste of the body. so that the ex
auisitc equipoise called perfect health
may be maintained and the decay and
hlockage which advances with age ma,
he kept at hay, is to prolong our years
! Mr.. De Lacy Evans of london, who
/ made many careful researches in these
regions of science. comes to the conclu
: sion that fruits. fish and poultry ant
!, young mutton and veal contain less O
e the earthly salts than any other articles
!. of food. and are. therefore, best fo
!, people entering the vale of years. Bee
and old mutton usually are oyercharget
y with salts and should be avoided. |
i one desires to prolong life, therefore.
# seems that moderate eating and die
containing a minimum amount OF earth
4 particles is most suitable to retard oil
4 age by preserving the system from fnnt
lie tional blockages. Ossific matter deposit
70 cd in the body must he dissolved as fa
as practicable. To produce this desire
= effect distilled water and diluted phos
IN phoric acid are perhaps the most eff
IS cacious and the least harmful. Henc,
pf to sum zip. the most rational modes 8
= keeping physical decay or deteroratio
ut hay. and thus retarding the approac
ne of old age. we should avoid all foods ric
40 in the earth's salts use much fruits. q
te prcially juicy, uncookcd apples, and taR
- daily two or three tnmhlerfuls Of di
titled water with about 10 or Is drol
er Of diluted phosphoric acid in each elas
~ full"