How to live a century and grow old gracefully / by J.M. Peebles.

  • Peebles, J. M. (James Martin), 1822-1922.
Date:
[1884], ©1884
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Credit: How to live a century and grow old gracefully / by J.M. Peebles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Though there are inherited tendencies, yet sick- ness and physical disease came not from Adam's sin or Napoleon's ambition, but from personal transgression of law. It is cause and effect—it is obey and live; it is sin and die ! There are many centenarians alive at the present time. I am personally acquainted with several. There is a Shaker sister living in one of the Be- liever's families, at Mount Lebanon, New York, who has attained 105 years. Buff on says: The man who does not die with disease reaches every- where the age of 90 or 100 years, and Dr. Morton, in his Anatomical Lectures declares that The human body as a machine is perfect; it bears no marks tending to decay, and is calculated to go on a hundred years, or we might say forever, did we not know to the contrary by experience. Intelligence, calmness and a good temper are as necessary to a long life as health is to happiness. Abnormal tendencies or any disease contracted by the violations of physical law, may, by care, energy and the proper medical remedies, not only be modi- fied, but completely eradicated. Louis Carnaro, a prominent Venetian, broken down in health at 35, so recovered it by reforming his habits and simpli- fying his mode of living as to reach 107 years. Human life has been compared to a journey, to a battle and to a pathway of progress, along which