The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-20
HOW TO LIVE FOR
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
PRACTICAL ADVICE FROM ONE
OF NATIONS LEADING MED.
lcAL EXPERTS.
Simple Rules Of Promoting "A Sound
Mind in a Sound Sound
BODY" Are Given.

Mind in a Sound Sound
Body" Are Given.
One of the most practical and help
full lectures ever given in Hastings wa:
that delivered Saturday afternoon a,
the Chautauqua by DR.. Charles E. Bar
ker, Ex President Taft's physician, and
noted authority in the medical world
on How to Live Hundred Years"
First he showed by authority tha,
could not be questioned that it was not
at all unreasonable for normal boy
or girl to expect to live 100 years. l,
involved common sense, reasonable care
thoughtfulness and will power.
The first essential was to take plenty
of good fresh air into all the air cells
of the lungs. That would purify the
blood and eliminate poisons from the
system.
The pores of the skin were another
means of elimination of wastes and
poisons. Wearing fannels tended to
clog the pores. This could be overcome
Dy few moments of vigorous exer.
else. Or it could be to large extent
overcome by brushing the skin night
and morning vigorously with coarse
brush, for about two minutes.
The third means of elimination of
bodily waste and poison were the bow
els. And inattention to them, especially
the disease of constipation, was the
source of breaking down physically of
men and women who should be in their
prime. He declared that there was no
reason whatever why anyone should
suffer from constipation. he recon-.
mended the following five things and
said that doing them would cure many
people in months time, and the most
obstinate case of constipation in six
months time. Here follow his five
rules:
Q) Every morning, as soon as one
can after arising, sip cup of hot water
into which has been puta quarter to a
half teaspoonsul of salt. The salt is
for cleansing. Five minutes after drink.
ing the hotswater drink glass of cold
water.
(2) Before dressing, and while lying
on the bed or on the floor on the back,
take about seven minutes time for ex.
ercises, simple ones, which exercise the
abdomen and muscles; such as raising
the feet to perpendicular, holding the
feet to the floor and trying to raise the
body by muscular effort; drawing both
knees back to the chest and return to
the floor; abdominal breathing exer.
cises.
(3 Eliminate meats absolutely from
the diet for six months, in serious cases
of constipation, and eat meat not more
than twice week in less serious cases.
(4) Eat cereals, such as cracked
wheat, green vegetables and fruit. He
recommended parsnips, carrots, beans,
peas, baked potatoes (never fried pota.
toes), spinach and lettuce. Fruits he
suggested were oranges, figs, raisins,
grape fruit, apples, baked or in sauce or
eaten out of hand If ones stomach
were acid, it was good thing to eat u
few raisins or fix or two at meals If
one could do it, it would be very help.
fhl to drink at night the Juice of two
oranges. But if ones stomach were
acid that could not be done.
(5) Drink from eight to ten glasses of
water every day.
The kidneys had their part to per-
form in eliminating wastes and poisons
But if one did not breathe properly, or
suffered constipation, or the pores Of
the skin were clogged, then the duty of
the surplus poisons and
wastes was put upon the kidneys, with
the result that they we're seriously over
worked, so that these organs finally
broke down. and one suffered from
Bright's disease or diabetes.
He strongly opposed meat eating as
a habit, claiming that once day was
the limit of meat eating, and twice a
week would be better
DIR. Barker poured it into the patent
medicine and drug taking habits.
He stated that DIR. Metchnikoff, the
noted Russian physician, was the best
authority in the world on questions sf.
fecting the length of the human life,
and his studies had made a great con-
tribution to scientific knowledge of that
subject. DIR. Metchnikoff's attention
was attracted to the little kingdom of
Bulgaria, where with population of
5000, 600 there were, according to the
census reports. over $500 people who
had reached 100 years of age, and some
OF them were $50 years. In other
words, he found that in that little coun-
try there were more centenarians than
in all the rest of Europe, with over
400, 100000 people. DR.. Metchnikoff
spent over year in Bulgaria, and found