The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-23
CAN LIVE
100 YEARS
Most Persons Nay Add
Three Decades to
Allotted Span.
Temperance in All Things De-
cIared the Greatest Agency
in Preventing Decay.

Sir Hermann Weber, NJ. D., F. r. c.
P, the distinguished English medical
authority in a recent lecture before the
Royal College of Physicians and Sur
geons made the somewhat startling an
nouncement that the age of 100 years
might be attained by most people.
He proceeded to lay down many def
mite rules covering the food and exer-
else to be taken to accomplish this end.
Coming from an authority SO highly
esteemed the advice cannot be taken
too seriously. In discussing the prob
lem DIR. Weber said:
THE subject of the proIongation of
life is a very large one. especially if
| considered with regard to the whole
population fro1l infancy onward. The
| diminution of infant mortality and the
| Improvement of the hygienic conditions
of towns and houses have raised and
will continue to raise the average du-
ration of life. Here is wide field
of usefulness, and one of the most i'm
portant sections of it will be the COM
bat with the various forms of patho-
genie microbes, in which men have rem
dered immortal services to humanity.
And besides. the physical education Of
the entire population, which ought to
commence in the nursery and ought
to be insisted upon at all schools pub
lie and private. will not only contrib
ute to the prolongation of life, but i'm
prove the whole race. Our grand
children ought not to hear any more of
the deterioration in the soldiers, the
professions or the trades.
I'VE are therefore justified in as
Stunning that although life is usually
limited to eighty years it may occa-
sionally be prolonged to 100 and even
more through the operation of careful
training. By carefully studying these
agencies We may sometimes succeed
in prolonging life to the limit natural
to the human species.
MOST CENTENARIANS TEN
PERATE.
Some of the most long-lived persons
have led injudicious lives, and great
longevity occurs occasionally under the
most different circumstances. After
having carefully entered into the rec
ords of more than one hundred cases
of very long-lived persons 1 have rea-
son TO say that by far the majority of
them were temperate were small meat
eaters, lived much in the open air and
led an active life. Many of them lived
a life of toll with great restrictions as
to food and comforts, while most of
them were early risers and a great
Il
ton and performed their work cheer
fully. Only a few were Incorporate or
idle and lazy persons.
Death from old age is caused by a !
kind of atrophy of the tissues and or |
gans connected with the changes in the
blood vessels. We must counterfeit
this tendency by supplying the tissues
and organs with healthy blood. To do |
so we must endeavor to produce a heal
thy state of the blood and to maintain
the blood vessels and lymphatics in a
sound and vigorous condition. Life,
We may say, depends to a great extent
on the state of the organs of circula-
ton. If we review the different means
in our power to prevent early decay
and TO keep the circulatory system in
a healthy condition we find that the
most efficacious are given by the differ
emit forms of exercise.
Walking is the most natural form of
exercise. The action of the heart and
the breathing are accelerated thereby
and more blood is passed into the blood
vessels, which are obliged to contract
more frequently and carry it with
greater energy to the different organs
and tissues. AT the same time the
number and depth of inspirations are
increased. more oxygen is taken up
and more carbonic acid is given out
however. acts not only direct
~ on the heart, but by the action of
the muscles of the legs more blood is
to them and all different yes
sells of the lower extremities carry
away more blood from the heart, and
The efferent vessels, the veins and
carry more blood back to
he heart and force it to contract more ]
EXERCISE ONCE A WEEK
ut is of great use for those who are
till in fair vigor to take regularly once I
week day of more prolonged eXer- i