Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-01
DEATH IS DUBBED
VERY bad HABIT.
LONDON MEDIC TELLS HOW TO
POSTPONE LIFE TO RIPE
AGE.
CARE OF THE SOLAR PLExUS
Is Key to Long Life-All Depends on
Abdominal Brain Which
Controls Nervous System,


London, Jan. 31.-Dr. Cornwall
Round, medical practitioner in Lon
don, claims to have discovered how
to live forever barring accidents.
AS he is only 40 years old himself it
cannot be said that in his own person
he offers even presumptive evidence
of the truth of his theories. But
that is no reason, he thinks, why he
should not start a lot of other people
living for ever, and he has Just con-
fided to me how the thing can be
done.
According to DR.. Round, dying is
simply "bad racial habit which
we have all got into, and should strive
our utmost to get out of.
GAS a matter Of fact he said,
eve each have the free will to create
our own ideal of longevity, and ac-
cording to our faith it will be done
unto u.s.
Those who cannot muster faith
enough to persuade themselves that
they cannot go on living indefinitely
should endeavOr to emulate Methuse-
lab, who, DR.. Round reminds us, lived
to be 969 years old.
"Surely," said the doctor, "that is
better ideal than the current three
score years and ten, and equally au-
thoritative.'
And if people can't convince them
selves that they may equal Methuse-
lah's longevity record they might fix
their ideal on Moses, who, according
to scripture, "was an hundred and
twenty years old when he died; his
eye was not dim nor his natural force
abated.'
The thing to be fought against and
eliminated is what DR.. Round calls
the "death instinct. - That, it ap-
pears, is something which has been
transmitted to us by our benighted
ancestors, who, because they observ-
ed that all lives ended in death, were
illogical enough to assume that there
was no way Of stopping it. In get
ting rid of this death instinct and
laying the foundations of perpetual
life great deal depends upon get
ting the solar plexus to behave itself
properly.
Most people in America first heard
Of the solar plexus through Bob
Fitzsimmons, who knocked out Cor
bett by landing on that portion of his
anatomy and thereby won the fistic
heavyweight championship, But,
according to DR.. Round, there is a
deal more in the solar plexus than
Bob FitZsimmons ever found out. 1t
is the ''abdominal brain.' 1t con-
trolls the sympathetic or involunta-
ry nervous system,' which has a
whole lot to do with the emotions
And the man who gets it to obey the
behests of the brain, working harmo-
niously with it, instead of kicking
against it, may, if DR.. Rounds dis
covery amounts to anything, live long
enough to beat Methuselah s record
out of sight.
"The disease Of everyday life
said DR.. Round, care the solar plex-
us attempts to throw off effete pois.
onous matter from the system and sc
right a wrong-a former sin against
ourselves that we have knowingly OIL
unknowingly committeeman at the
same time by painful symptoms give
us a friendly warning that we arr
misconducting the internal affairs Of
the body, and should, therefore, SET
our house of flesh in ORDER
So the important thing is to trair
and treat the solar plexus that i
won't give in when old age and dis
ease tackles us. The solar plexus
the doctor tells US, is remarkabl,
amenable to suggestions.
sit will,' he says, "carry any sug
gested idea to its logical conclusion
| (that is evidently what it did wher
Fitzsimmons hit it so hard) and b,
means of the sympathetic nervou.
system, it will tend to rebuild tn.
body according to the logical result
dedueed from the accepted sugges
TOM