The Prolongation of lifePutnam, 1908 - 343 pages |
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... males and females.- Relations between longevity and fertility of the organism . III THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM AND SENILITY PAGE 25 39 47 Relations between longevity and the structure of the digestive system . The cæca in birds . The large ...
... males and females.- Relations between longevity and fertility of the organism . III THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM AND SENILITY PAGE 25 39 47 Relations between longevity and the structure of the digestive system . The cæca in birds . The large ...
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... males attain their maximum weights at the age of forty , females at that of fifty . From the age of sixty years onwards , the body becomes lighter , the loss at eighty being as much as thirteen pounds . Such losses of height and weight ...
... males attain their maximum weights at the age of forty , females at that of fifty . From the age of sixty years onwards , the body becomes lighter , the loss at eighty being as much as thirteen pounds . Such losses of height and weight ...
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... male tortoise ( Testudo mauritanica ) given me by my friends MM . Rabaud and Caullery , and which is at least 86 years old . It shows no sign of old age , and in all respects behaves like any other individual of this species. THE ...
... male tortoise ( Testudo mauritanica ) given me by my friends MM . Rabaud and Caullery , and which is at least 86 years old . It shows no sign of old age , and in all respects behaves like any other individual of this species. THE ...
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... male , although , as I have said , probably at least 86 years of age , was still sexually healthy . I have borrowed from the interesting volume of Prof. Sir E. Ray Lankester1 the figure ( Fig . 5 ) and de- scription of a giant tortoise ...
... male , although , as I have said , probably at least 86 years of age , was still sexually healthy . I have borrowed from the interesting volume of Prof. Sir E. Ray Lankester1 the figure ( Fig . 5 ) and de- scription of a giant tortoise ...
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... males of certain wheel animalcula ( Rotifera ) complete their cycle of life from birth to death in 50 or 60 hours , whilst others , like some reptiles , live more than 100 years , and quite possibly may live for two or three centuries ...
... males of certain wheel animalcula ( Rotifera ) complete their cycle of life from birth to death in 50 or 60 hours , whilst others , like some reptiles , live more than 100 years , and quite possibly may live for two or three centuries ...
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According activity amongst animals anthropoid apes atheroma atrophy bacillus bacteria become birds blood body Bulgarian bacillus cæca cæcum cause cells centenarians century condition degeneration developed died diseases duration Eckermann eggs elephant evil existence extremely facts fæcal matter Faust favourable females fermentation function gland Goethe Goethe's harmful human race hygiene individual insects instance instinct intestinal flora intestinal putrefaction investigation kephir known Kowalevsky lactic acid lactic microbes large intestine larvæ less live longevity macrophags males mammals microbes Moebius morality muscles muscular natural death nerve-cells normal old age organisation organs pain Paris Pasteur Pasteur Institute patient period pessimism pessimistic phagocytes phagocytosis plants poisons problem produced prolonged putrefaction quantities reach regarded relations reproduction result rotifers rudimentary senescence senile sense serums sexual sleep small intestine society soured milk species substances syphilis theory tion tissues vertebrates Werther whilst woman young youth
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Page 298 - Yes, to this thought I hold with firm persistence ; The last result of wisdom stamps it true : He only earns his freedom and existence, Who daily conquers them anew.
Page 136 - NOW king David was old and stricken in years ; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
Page 322 - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven: therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 286 - Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces.
Page 265 - Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which all thoughtful men of a certain age were languishing: it paints the misery, it passionately utters the complaint; and heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it.
Page 233 - Therefore I hated life ; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.