Sobriety is certainly favourable to long life, but it is not necessary, because quite a number of centenarians have drunk freely.
In the brain of the two centenarians (one of whom died at the age of 117 years) there were very many nerve-cells surrounded by phagocytes and in process of being destroyed by them.
It has been noticed that most centenarianshave been people who were poor, or in humble circumstances, and whose life has been extremely simple.
It appears that Eastern Europe (Balkan States, and Russia), although its civilisation is not high, contains many more centenarians than Western Europe.
With this object, a systematic investigation of senescence should be made in institutions for the aged, where there are always a large number of people from 75 to 90 years old, although centenarians are extremely rare.
It has been noticed that many centenarians do not smoke, but this like all other traits is not universal.
Poverty generally brings with it sobriety, especially in old age, and it has been often said that most centenarians have lived an extremely sober life.
Haller, in the eighteenth century, remarked that centenarians often occurred in the same family, as if longevity were a hereditary quality.
Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.
Grigoroff, a Bulgarian student at Geneva, has been surprised by the number of centenarians to be found in Bulgaria, a region in which yahourth, a soured milk, is the stable food.
This fact, however, cannot be taken absolutely, and it is still possible that in particular cases there may have been more centenarians hitherto than at present.
Chemin a memoir in which he has brought together the ancient and new records on the centenarians of all countries up to the end of the nineteenth century.
These parts present on the whole a greater amount of variation than any other parts of the eye.
The seam which marks the original site of the choroid slit is at first conspicuous by the absence of pigment, and at a later period by the deep colour of its pigment.
There is no definite boundary to this tissue where it surrounds the eye.
On the sixth day the choroid slit becomes rapidly closed, so that at the end of the sixth day it is reduced to a mere seam.
The investigator had noticed that all the alleged centenarians had "departed this life" during the rectorship of the Rev.
In a sketch of centenarians published in November, 1884, are given the names of Nathaniel H.
With this ratio, which is itself increasing, the plurality of Quakers will be centenarians in less than two hundred years--in half that time if assisted by the world at large.
The question of importance is not whether this age is yielding more centenarians than former ages, but whether, on the average, the age of man is longer than it was, and if so, how much longer?
Quoting Metchnikoff[215]: In some cases centenarians have been much addicted to the drinking of coffee.
Vide also, occasional newspaper statements attributed to centenarians or near centenarians who claim to have been Fletcherites before Fletcher was born.
The centenariansgenerally regarded were of spare build.
Of American centenarians we have a number, some of whom are still living.
Twelve of the fifty-two centenarians were discovered to have been the eldest children of their parents.
In France, for instance, nearly 150 centenarians die every year, and extreme longevity is not limited to the white races.
Women more frequently become centenarians than men--a fact which supports the general proposition that male mortality is always greater than that of the other sex.
It has been noticed that most centenarians have been people who were poor or in humble circumstances, and whose life has been extremely simple.
Arranged in tabular form, the following results are seen:— Centenarians returned at each successive census.
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