Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-01
LIVING FOREVER.

Cornwall Round, a medical practi- tioner in London. claims to have dis covered how to live forever-barring accidents. As he is only 40 years old himself it can not be said that in his own person he offers even pre- sumptive evidence of the truth of his theory. But that is no reason, he thinks, why he should not start a lot of other people living forever, and he has just made known how the thing can be done.
 According to Dr. Round, dying is simply a bad racial habit which we have all got into and should strive our utmost 10 get out of. AS matter of fact" he said. we each have the free will to create our own ideal of longevity, and according to our faith 1t will be done unto us."
 Those who can not muster faith enough to persuade themselves that they can not go on living indefinitely should eudeavor to emulate Methu- selah who, Dr. Round reminds us, lived to be 969 years old.
 Surely" says the doctor, that is a better ideal than the present three score years and ten, and equally au- thoritatiye." And if people can't con vince themselves that they may equal Methuselah'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 ob- served that all lives ended in death. were illogical enough to assume that there was no way of stopping it. In getting rid of this death instinct and laying the foundation or perpetual life, great deal depends upon get ting the sclar plexus to behave it. self properly. Most people in Amer ica first heard of the solar plexus through Bob Fitzsimmons, who knocked out Corbett by landing on that portion of his anatomy and there
 by won the fistic heavyweight cham pionship. But according to Dr. Round there is a great deal more in the solar plexus than Bob Fitzsimmons ever found out. It is the abdominal brain" It controls the sympathetic | or involuntary nervous system" which has a whole lot to do with the emotions And the man who gets 1t to obey the behests of the brain, work ing tremendously with it, instead of kicking against, may, if DT. Rounds discovery amounts to anything, live long enough to beat Methuselah's re cord out of sight.
 The diseases of every day hfe," said Dr. Round, "are the solar pIexus' attempts to throw of effete poison ous matter from the system and so right a wrong-a former sin against ourselves that we have knowingly | or unknowingly committed-aEd at the same time by painful symptoms give us a friendly warning that we are miseonducting the internal af-
 fairs of the body and should, there fore, set our house of flesh in order" So the important thing is to so train and treat the solar plexus that it won't give in when old age and dis ease tackle us. The solar plexus, the doctor tells us, is remarkably amen able to suggestions. It will" he says, "csrry any suggested idea to its log | ical conclusion (that is evidently 1 what it did when Fitzsimmons hit it | so hard), and by means of the sympa- l thetic nervous system, it will tend to rebuild the body according to the log
 ieal result deduced from the accept
 ed suggestion
 According to pr. Round we should fight shy of burials. They convey sug-
 gestions that are very bad for the so-
 lar plexus. We should avoid also
 reading tales that end badly or wit I messing maudlin dramatic tragedies or
 recapitulating them in our thoughts. In fact, such mental virus. which is