The attainable limits of human longevity are generally underrated by the medical profession and by popular opinion.
There are many fine examples of longevity at this time.
In future numbers the true basis and indications of longevity in man will be fully illustrated.
Everything which stimulates men to exercise the nobler qualities of their nature is promotive of health and longevity; and the true religion which anthropology commends will increase human longevity in proportion as it prevails.
The estimate of 140 years as a practicable longevity for a nobler generation is sustained by the number of that age (fourteen, if I recollect rightly) found in Italy by a census under one of the later Roman emperors.
That Mulattoes of the first degree, issued from the union of the Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) race with the African Negroes, appear inferior in fecundity and longevity to individuals of the pure races.
At Mobile, New Orleans, Pensacola, towns on the Gulf of Mexico, he found among the Mulattoes many instances of manifest longevity and prolificacy, not merely in their crossed but in their direct alliances.
He wanted also medicines for longevity and perpetual strength.
They have taken the worst station in life in which to findlongevity as their field of observation.
Possibly the most celebrated case of longevityon record is that of Henry Jenkins.
It may be of interest to the members of our profession to learn of some instances of longevity among confreres.
Longevity is always most common in the middle and lower classes, in which we cannot expect to find the records preserved with historical correctness.
Their mode of life, though conducive to longevity in the minor offices of the Church, seems to be overbalanced by the cares of the Pontificate.
It is a rather remarkable fact in connection with the examples of longevity cited that in almost every instance the centenarian is a person in the humblest rank of life.
Among hermits and ecclesiastics, as would be the natural inference from their regular lives, many instances of longevity are recorded.
Among the Mission Indians of Southern California there are reported instances of longevity ranging from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty.
Lieutenant Gibbons found in a village in Peru one hundred inhabitants who were past the century mark, and another credible explorer in the same territory records a case of longevity of one hundred and forty.
It must also be said that it is only among people of this class that we can expect to find parallels of the instances of extremelongevity of former times.
It is worthy of remark that several instances of longevity in Roman actresses have been recorded.
Many of the instances of longevity were in people of Scotch origin who subsisted all their lives on porridges.
Lucian ascribes this longevityto their habit of drinking excessive quantities of water.
A long life, perhaps, for longevityis one of the characteristics of this class of hens; but of what has that life been productive?
The longevity of the pot is surprising when we consider how much death there is all about it.
Of course I took no more notice of this threat than of its predecessors; and the age to which I have lived is an instance of the longevityproverbially attained by threatened men.
My father died in his eighty-ninth year--a longevity not unprecedented in our family.
I think there are many who would forfeit longevity rather than partake of it.
But the reader needs no further illustrations of the longevity of human error, or the terrible vitality of prejudice, especially among the uneducated.
Some of them have had the "constitution" necessary to attain the respectable longevity and have used tobacco and alcohol at the same time, but there is no evidence that either tobacco or alcohol lengthened their lives.
All inquiry in all directions, wherever longevityhas been accomplished, reveals the same simplicity of habits of living, which are the natural points of Fletcherizing.
He warned me that I was courting death, but that he was providing for himselflongevity by the mile.
Thus arranged, the week is a remarkable instance of the longevity of an institution adapted to the wants of man.
On looking over some volumes of the Annual Register, from its commencement in 1758, I find instances of longevity very common, if we can credit its reports.
The clergy tell us that mankind descend from a single pair, and that in the earlier ages the human race attained a longevity counted not by decades but by centuries.
This is strongly corroborative of the correctness of the theory in relation to the longevity of man, which cannot now, I think, fail to be accepted generally.
Monsieur Flourens' theory of the longevity of our race is founded upon data the most conclusive.
Affinity can be measured only by the thrift, healthfulness and longevity of the cion.
She traced the sentence with her forefinger, for Rob's glance to follow: "Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious.
You know Arbuthnot says that 'instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious,' and I certainly want to be longevous.
I think it conducive to equanimity of spirit and to longevity to sit in an orange grove and eat the fruit and inhale the fragrance of it while gazing upon a snow-mountain.
This training in abstinence and hardship, with temperance in diet, combined with the climate to produce the astonishing longevity to be found here.
Remondino comments on the extraordinary endurance of animals and men in the California climate, and cites many cases of uncommon longevity in natives.
Yet there is a longevity which is one of the surest evidences of youth.
Turning to the great novelists of France, with one or two exceptions, they all bear out the theory of longevity in literature which I have been endeavouring to support.
A comparison of the longevity of the different educated classes proves this in a remarkable manner.
Indeed the longevity of this incomparable commonwealth is a certain proof of its temperance, exercise, and cheerfulness, the great preservatives in every body, politic as well natural.
Of the longevity of man this district affords us no pleasing examples.
The rules of longevity were in oblivion and the routine channels of a mind, so used to teeming detail, had become abysses as dark and void as the canyons of the range.
The father, who had transgressed the rules oflongevity by taking a second cigar after dinner, now pushed the box across the desk to his son.
Thus you see my young friends that virtue and happiness, temperance, prosperity and longevity are inseparably connected by the Author of our being, who has made them to depend in a great measure upon our conduct.
The due regulation of the passions contributes more to health and longevity than climate, or even the observance of any course of diet.
In these also he has wholly united our duty, happiness and longevity in one.
These represent the physical wants of the people, and correspond with the Chinese god of longevity and his compeers.
