Countess of 110
Sir Humphry Rolleston, Pro fessor of Physics at Cambridge, delivering the Friday Discourse at the Royal Institution, referred to number of curious' examples of notable entenavians.
There was the case. he said, of Thomas Parr, aged 182, who first married at '88, hed some love complication, ard had to do pen-one ina white sheet when 105, and married again, widow, when 122, Tu 1686 he was brought to Lonsd\don to be presented to. Charles 1. ut his hospitable welcome proved 0 be hie undoing, for staying as (si Arundel he had the opportuni servant in the Fouse of the Earl
of drinking wine and died.
Teething At There was ulso_-Kutherine, Counters of Desmond, who was re: puted to have lived 140 years, to have had a daughter after she was 05, and a second st of natural teeth shortly before her death.
Since the middle of the last century the "great reforms [Thysiene and Sanitation "in this country had so prevented illness and premature death that the ¢x-pectation of life at birth had in creased from 39.01 years in 1854 to 51.5 in 1912 for males, and from 41.9 to 55.35 for females, The increased expectation of life was due to the prevention of death in early life. On the contrary, the expectation "of life at advanced periods had declined, Karl Pearson in 1902 had found Hnat, though a man of 25 lived on an average 15 years more than 2,000 years ago, the expectation of life after the age of 68 for 8 Romano-Egyptian 2,000 years ago wav greater than for an English man or woman of the same age, and pointed out that with these ancient people at about the beginning of the Christian era it was ease of the survival of the fin-fest, whereas the difference in the expectation of life at earlier ages lence of the great social ary progress that had conquered environment, On balance, it might be still thought that the physiological age Jef man was 100 years, though few reached it. Women lived longer than meu, and among reputed centenarians also the ratio was much in favour of that popularly said to he the weaker sex,
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