The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-10-30

anything but ad
believed rather ID
be merry. for tOI
But when he found
his course OF aCtua
Thereafter he led
as was led by few
those days. His food
dag, ard his meals an
as regular as ci0ckUol
Whoever wishes 10
eat little" said the ven
iu his treatise On long life
simply that the eating OF
"a mans life. and by living
he is enabled 10 eat
Another maxim that IFS i1E
The food from which "a MAJ
after ne has eaten heartily T.
benefit 10 him than the food
has eaten
Coruaro prescribed diet
decIar- would proloug life if TO .e
First. bread. then soup or light brOt
with an egg, OF some other nice little
dish of this kind, of meats / eat veal
kid. and mutton I eat fowls or all
kinds. as well as partridges and birds
lire the thrush. also partakg of such
salt water FISH as the gOLdney and the
like. and among freshwater kinds the
pike and others. Old people, he con-
tiuues. "vgho. on account of poverty
cannot afford 20 indulge i'm all Of these
things may maintain their lives with
bread. soup, and eggs-foods that GER
tainIv cannot be wanting, even to a
poor man.
The good old man apparently did not
foresee the scent loaf and eggs az 81
cents a dozen
Wine Milk of Aged.
He would have made the W0men's
Christian Temperance Union pale with
anger. for he said Wine IS truly the
milk % the agedl" one circumstance.
however. for which he was unable 70
account. AMI which gave him a great
deal Of trouble. was mis- inability 10 drink
wine OF any kind during the months OF
JuIv and August His distress was
acute during these months II am left
without anything 10 drink" said he, for
waters in whatever wav they may be
doctored OF prepared have not the vir-
the of wine. and fail TO relieve me- NY
stomach becomes very much disordcred
and i can eat but very uttle in conse-
oueuc@. This scarcity of food and lack
of wine reduces me by the last of Au-
gust to "a condition of extreme mortal
weakness. 7 ana brought very near a
dying condition. If I were not careful
10 have a supply of new wine ready an
the beginning OF September, the delay
would be the cause of my death.
Another theory which Cornaro adj
vanced was that "a man cannot be a per
feet physician to one save himself alone.
For that reason me advocated the care
fm study of the body and its needs by
everybody. lie did believe. however IN
calling en- physicians for the treatment
Of disease incurred by those who did not
lead the orderly life"
Brown Sequard's Animal Extracts.
OF all the methods devised TO proIoug
life Browu-SequaTd system Of animal
extracts has perhaps aroused more in
terest ia the scientific world than amy
other. This famous psychologist de-
cIared that the blood owes to the sper-
matte glands certain substances possess
ing great powers. The effect OF castra-
ton upOn men and animals IS well
known They lose both physical and
intellectual activity. BroWn-Sequard
was convinced that the weakness of
old men depended upon two causes. q
natural series of organic changes and
the gradual diminishing action of the
spermatic glands He argued. therefore
that if semen were introduced into the
blood of the aged there would be an in
creased activity mental and physical
With the idea of demonstrating his
theory Le made experiments FIRST with
dogs. and then with guinea-Digs and