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An Inquiry Into the Cause of Natural Death; Or, Death from Old Age; Developing a New and Certain Method of Preventing the Consolidation or Ossification of the Body, and of Thus Indefinitely Prolonging Vigorous, Elastic and Bouyant Health; And of Re

An Inquiry Into the Cause of Natural Death; Or, Death from Old Age; Developing a New and Certain Method of Preventing the Consolidation or Ossification of the Body, and of Thus Indefinitely Prolonging Vigorous, Elastic and Bouyant Health; And of Re


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...of the lower extremities, and the arteries of the upper extremities completely filled with ossific matter, is mystery truly wonderful. "V table world. So true is it, that the average age to which any species of organized beings exist, may be almost determined, by knowing the time at which they arrive at maturity, or begin to propagate. As manhood is attained, the skin begins to be incrusted with a plaster-like substance, which accumulates as age advances. If the linen of some persons, after being worn a few days, be well shaken, a quantity of dust, like flour, will come from it. If the body be well rubbed with a dry hard brush or cloth, the same flour-like substance will be obtained. This dust, when analyzed, is found to consist of gelatine combined with bony or earthy matter. That it is originally derived from the food and drink, is evident from the fact, that its presence on the skin is proportionate to the amount and quality of food consumed. Aged people, for instance, having consumed for a period of sixty or eighty years an immense amount of earthy matter into the system, are incrusted to a much greater extent than young persons. Old people of the same age, also differ much in this respect; those having taken freely of solid grain food, always being worse than such as have been more sparing in their habits, and have consumed more fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, flesh, &c, and less flour preparations. Women generally eat less food, and labor and perspire less than men; and are therefore less incrusted with calcareous matter. Their skins are much smoother, and more pliant, and on this as well as on other accounts, they may justly be styled the " softer sex." In advanced age, however, they are more or less affected with this external imp...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231327876
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231327871
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr

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