Venturi points out that married women preserve a fresh voice to a more advanced age than spinsters, this being due to the precocious senility in the latter of an unused function.
The notable discovery by Brown-Séquard, a quarter of a century ago, that the ingestion of the testicular juices in states of debility and senility acted as a beneficial stimulant and tonic, opened the way to a new field of therapeutics.
But our heaviest burdens, senility and death, common to all, have yet scarcely been studied.
Having expounded his views on senility and proved that it is a pathological phenomenon, Metchnikoff concluded that to struggle against it was quite as possible as to struggle against disease.
He had prescribed for himself a hygienic diet, based on the idea that the cause of his own condition and senility in general was due to a chronic poisoning by intestinal microbes.
In man, whose life conditions are different, a large intestine of that size, without offering the same advantages, is a source of slow and continuous poisoning and a cause of premature senility and death.
The principal causes which bring about premature senility are: alcoholism, chronic poisoning by intestinal microbes, and infectious diseases, headed by syphilis.
They reproached him with having an insufficiently exalted ideal, for they only saw in his doctrine the desire of postponing senility and living longer.
Metchnikoff supposes that this lack of harmony in our nature comes from the fact that death is as premature as senility and arrives before the natural instinct for it has had time to develop.
He saw in it one of the most important disharmonies of human nature, because of the fact that neither senility nor death is accompanied by a natural instinct.
But, as long as senility is pathological and death premature, the apprehension that they inspire antagonises the normal evolution of optimism.
Premature senility was the result--a phenomenon as pathological as any disease.
Researches upon syphilis were but an interlude; Metchnikoff, returning to his principal work, resumed the study of senility and of the intestinal flora.
He himself responded to all those manifestations of sympathy by a spirited speech, in which, a propos of his own particular case, he expounded his ideas on senility and the duration of life in general.
One of the first manifestations of senilitybeing the whitening of hair, he began to study the mechanism of that.
Their senility was congenital, like Gladstone's Oxford training and High Church illusions, which caused wild eccentricities in his judgment.
The whole government, from top to bottom, was rotten with the senility of what was antiquated and the instability of what was improvised.
It's enough to make a man die of senility to have ten years tacked to his age.
Finally he got to BEING eighty, from thinking it, and he died of senility in the end.
Then decrepitude had spread to the shores of the great Mediterranean lake, burying both Tyre and Sidon with dust, and afterwards striking Carthage with senility whilst it yet seemed in full splendour.
As soon as a pope begins to fall into second childhood, and by reason of his senility becomes a source of embarrassment, and possibly even danger, to the Church, his right place is heaven.
The development of that law coincides, as to time, with the senility of the Roman Empire and the childhood of modern nations.
The return of the relatively small population of its childhood to a nation in its senility cannot be ascribed exclusively to a decrease in its means of subsistence and to a less advantageous distribution of them.
The senility of the rancher was painfully apparent.
His senility appeared in every line of his face; in every movement of his shaking hands; in every glance of his bleared eyes.
Precocity in crime is a characteristic of born criminals, and puberty and senility have their peculiar offences, as have the extremes of poverty and wealth.
Precocious greyness and baldness are common in the insane criminals, and cretins, on the contrary, show these initial signs of senility at a much later period than normal persons.
At the same time Juliette was allowed to act the soubrettes; her father was too much afraid of the leading lady to play any tricks of suddenly imposed senility with her.
Only approaching senility could excuse this prodigal effusion of what is really almost maternal lust.
The individual cases are considerably helped by the assumption that the mental organization of senility is essentially simplified and narrowed to a few types.
I should like to add to what precedes, that senility presents fact and judgment together.
It seems that genuine staff duties are something altogether unknown to the military senility of the army.
Young blood will be infused, and perhaps senility will be thrown overboard, or sent to the Museum of the Smithsonian Institute.
I remember accosting a lad, anemic, shivering with the tertian, and marked by that untimely senility which is the sign-manual of malaria.
The cause of this senility and the ensuing natural death is determined for each species of organisms by the specific nature of their plasm.
As Kassowitz has lately pointed out, the senility of individuals consists in the inevitable increase in the decay of protoplasm and the metaplastic parts of the body which this produces.
Senility and infancy are by nature normally narcotized.
His Pantalone recalls the Cortesani, described in a chapter of the Memoirs; but a touch of senilityhas been added, which lends comic weakness to the type.
It should, however, be borne in mind that these signs of senility may come much later or even not at all.
There is no trace ofsenility in his professorial utterances.
Carlyle's senility was not enviable, and even that sturdy veteran Stratford Canning* told Gladstone that longevity was "not a blessing.
And still not a word to tell who he is," spoke Frank.
That it caused the introduction ofsenility as a preparation for death is a less tenable hypothesis.
As is well known, Professor Weismann believes thatsenility and death are no part of the natural heritage of animal life, but have been introduced among the metazoa on utilitarian grounds.
One, and the most important, is that the normal circulation of the blood does not succeed in freeing all the waste products of the tissues, and that this is the cause of senility and death.
In the artificial growth the problem of senility and death is solved.
Senility cannot be attributed to the cessation of the power of reproduction of the cells of the body.
When we have reduced or abolished such causes of precocious senility as intemperance and disease, it will no longer be necessary to give pensions at the age of sixty or seventy years.
The physical mechanism of senility appears to be in large measure the result of this process.
The scientific investigation of old age shows that senility is nearly always precocious and that its disabilities and miseries are for the most part due to preventable causes.
It does not follow, however, that their action in producing senility is exclusive, or even preponderating.
By such measures Metchnikoff believes that life will be greatly prolonged and that the chief evils of senility will be avoided.
These were clear indications of the senility that precedes death” (p.
It seems to me that Götte’s statement ‘that the appearances of senility must not be regarded as the general cause of death’ is not in opposition to my opinions but rather to those which receive general acceptance.
The changes in the organism which result in normal death,—senility so-called,—have been most accurately studied among men.
I have myself pointed out that ‘death is not always preceded by senility or a period of old age[93].
As Adam Patch never quite decided whether she referred to the advancing senility of his mind or to some private and psychic schema of her own, it cannot be said to have pleased him.
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