Old Age: The Results of Information Received Respecting Nearly Nine Hundred Persons who Had Attained the Age of Eighty Years, Including Seventy-four CentenariansMacmillan and Bowes, 1889 - 218 pages |
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Page 41 - Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
Page 92 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Page 11 - The first requisite for longevity must clearly be an inherent or inborn quality of endurance, of steady, persistent nutritive force, which includes reparative force and resistance to disturbing agencies, and a good proportion or balance between the several organs. Each organ must be sound in itself, and its strength must have a due relation to the strength of the other organs. If the heart and the digestive system be disproportionately strong, they will overload and oppress the other organs, one...
Page 135 - 1. The prime requisite is the faculty of age in the blood by inheritance ; in other words, that the body has been wound up, as it were, and sent into the world with the initial force necessary to carry on the living processes through a long period, that this is the case with every organ, and that the several organs are so adjusted to one another as to form a well balanced whole.
Page 92 - Thus saith the Lord ; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth ; and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts the holy mountain.
Page 93 - The organs of generation were healthy, the penis neither retracted nor extenuated, nor the scrotum filled with any serous infiltration, as happens so commonly among the decrepid; the testes, too, were sound and large; so that it seemed not improbable that the common report was true, viz. that he did public penance under a conviction for incontinence, after he had passed his hundredth year...
Page 29 - ... upon any changes that take place in it during the later periods of life, though those changes are such as to cause rarefaction of its cancelli and greater liability to fracture, but upon other causes. Such causes, more particularly, are the separation of the broken surfaces, which commonly occurs ; the buried position of the inner fragment in the cavity of the acetabulum, which prevents any overlapping of the fragments and any throwing out of uniting matter...
Page 43 - Humphry calls attention is the total absence of any evidence of rheumatic or gouty affection, past or present, in the joints of the hands and fingers — a condition which is not unfrequently regarded as one of the heralds of old age, and which doubtless, like many other local maladies, of which it may be taken as an example, is often prophylactic against other more serious maladies.
Page 6 - ... of wakefulness. Or some exertion may be followed by too great exhaustion. Dr. Willis, the attendant upon King George III, at the age of 90, after a walk of four miles to see a friend, sat down in his chair and went to sleep, or was thought to be asleep, but he did not wake again. Or some slight scarcely noticed excitement may have the same result.
Page 94 - ... troubles of his earlier life, or of the manners of society, or of the prices of things — in a word, of any of the ordinary incidents which men are wont to retain in their memories. He only recollected the events of the last few years. Nevertheless, he was accustomed, even in his hundred and thirtieth year, to engage lustily in every kind of agricultural labour, whereby he earned his bread, and he had even then the strength required to thrash the corn.