The extraordinary life and times of Thomas Parr, who lived to be 152 years of age : with remarks on disease and health, and the means of prolonging life / [T. Roberts & Co.].

  • T. Roberts & Co.
Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: The extraordinary life and times of Thomas Parr, who lived to be 152 years of age : with remarks on disease and health, and the means of prolonging life / [T. Roberts & Co.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and hesitation, he determined to attempt to cure himself. In the first instance he had much difficulty, but after considerable patience and varied trials, he was fully rewarded for all his trouble by discovering that a simple combination of the active properties of several well-known herbs had the effect of entirely altering the tone of his system. As may be supposed, this was a work of time, yet promising symptoms, speedily produced, gave him encouragement to persevere, with the ultimate effect of not merely restoring him to his usual health, but of making him celebrated for great strength, activity, and vigour. With his usual judgment he kept secret the means adopted by him to effect this wonderful restoration, for had he used the medicines at that period in PARR SHOOTING WITH THE CROSS-BOW. order to cure others, he would probably have been dubbed a wizard, and introduced to the nearest horsepond for his pains. He prudently refrained from incurring this odium, except in a few particular instances, and then the persons assisted were too enlightened to attribute the effect of his wonderful pills to any such ridiculous cause. His own immediate family were very much benefitted by his valuable discoveries, and their lives were extended in consequence to an advanced period, thus :— His son attained the age of 113 years, his grandson 109, and