Annals of health and long life : with observations on regimen and diet, so necessary to the preservation of life : including records of longevity, with biographical anecdotes of one hundred and forty remarkable persons, who attained extreme old age / by Joseph Taylor.

  • Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Annals of health and long life : with observations on regimen and diet, so necessary to the preservation of life : including records of longevity, with biographical anecdotes of one hundred and forty remarkable persons, who attained extreme old age / by Joseph Taylor. 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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    von Wallis, Governor of Temeswaer, hearing that this old man was sick, caused a likeness of him to be taken, which was scarcely finished when he died. The above account is extracted from a letter written to the States-General of the United Netherlands, by their Envoy, Hamelbraning, at Vienna, and dated January 29, 1724. A Mulatto man, whose name is not mentioned in the account, died at Frederick Town in North America, in the year 1797, who was said to have been one hundred and eighty years old. A negress, named Louisa Truxo, was living in June, 1780, at Cordova, in the Tucuman, South Ame- rica ; whose age was then one hundred and seventy-five years. In order to ascertain the authenticity of this very extraordinary circumstance, the council of that city, in their judicial capacity, instituted an inquiry into the affair, and collected every information capable of throwing any light on the subject. On the exami- nation of the negress it appeared, that she perfectly remembered having seen the Prelate Fernando Truxo, her first master, who died in the year 1614; and that a year before his death he gave her, together with other property, towards a fund for founding the uni- versity of that place. As no registers of baptism existed so long ago, care was taken to collect every circumstance that could be brought forward in proof F2