The Prolongation of lifePutnam, 1908 - 343 pages |
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... woman whose large intestine was inactive for six months . Another case where the greater part of the large intestine was com- pletely shut off . - Attempts to disinfect the contents of the large intestine . - Prolonged mastication as a ...
... woman whose large intestine was inactive for six months . Another case where the greater part of the large intestine was com- pletely shut off . - Attempts to disinfect the contents of the large intestine . - Prolonged mastication as a ...
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... woman is so tough that it cannot be crushed even in a mill . We may take it as an echo of such popular ideas that ... woman without the least remorse . " " If the truth were told , " he goes on to say , " this is how I look at the thing ...
... woman is so tough that it cannot be crushed even in a mill . We may take it as an echo of such popular ideas that ... woman without the least remorse . " " If the truth were told , " he goes on to say , " this is how I look at the thing ...
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... woman who had reached her 100th year was the pride of the Salpêtrière . She was bedridden and extremely feeble physically and mentally . She replied briefly when she was asked questions , but apparently with- out any idea of what they ...
... woman who had reached her 100th year was the pride of the Salpêtrière . She was bedridden and extremely feeble physically and mentally . She replied briefly when she was asked questions , but apparently with- out any idea of what they ...
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... woman more than an inch and a half ( 4'3 cm . ) , between the ages of fifty and eighty - five years . In extreme cases , the loss may be nearly three inches . The weight also becomes less . According to Quételet , males attain their ...
... woman more than an inch and a half ( 4'3 cm . ) , between the ages of fifty and eighty - five years . In extreme cases , the loss may be nearly three inches . The weight also becomes less . According to Quételet , males attain their ...
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... woman , and the time of gestation of which is about the same , or a little longer , acquires its teeth at four years old , and becomes senile at an early age ; it is quite old at between sixteen and seventeen , an age when a woman is ...
... woman , and the time of gestation of which is about the same , or a little longer , acquires its teeth at four years old , and becomes senile at an early age ; it is quite old at between sixteen and seventeen , an age when a woman is ...
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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.