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Longevity is indeed a strange and difficult problem. Many of you doubtless have had your attention directed recently to the republished translation of Cornaro sfamous work and know how sensible that is, and as you read it you must have perceived how little in the practical aspect of the matter we have passed beyond the advice which old Cornaro gave to us, and yet silently in the medical laboratories, and in the physiological and anatomical institutes of various universities, we have been gathering more accurate information as to what is the condition of persons who are very old We know, first of all, from our common observation, that the very old grow shorter in stature. We see that they are not so tall as in the prime of life. The figures which have been compiled upon this subject are instructive, for they show that at the age of some thirty years the average height of men these figures refer to Germans is 174 centimetres. It remains at that, however, only for a short period; then it decreases Luigi Cornaro swork was originally published at Padua in 1558 under the title of Traitato de la vita sobria, English editions have been issued by George Herbert, by an anonymous editor (L ondon, 1768), and G. H. Evans (1836), all which included other discourses. The translation alluded to in the text was issued at Milwaukee in 1903 by Wm. F. Butler, and in the same volume the reader will find more apposite matter. Cornaro was bom in 1464 and died in 1566. He resigned his last breath without any agony, sitting in an elbow chair, being above an hundred years old. A ddison, in the Spectator (O ct. 13, 1711), wrote of Cornaro and thus commends him: The Treatise I mention has been taken notice of by several Kminent authors, and is written with such a spirit of cheerfulness, religion, and good sense, as are the natural concomitants of temperance and sobriety.
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