Human Longevity: Its Facts and Its Fictions, Including an Inquiry Into Some of the More Remarkable Instances, and Suggestions for Testing Reputed Cases, Illustrated by Examples (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Thoms, William J.

 
9781331639589: Human Longevity: Its Facts and Its Fictions, Including an Inquiry Into Some of the More Remarkable Instances, and Suggestions for Testing Reputed Cases, Illustrated by Examples (Classic Reprint)

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If Old Parr really attained the age of I 52, and Henry Jenkins that of 169, the great German physiologist, Haller might have been justified in arguing, as he has done, from such data, the possibility of man's life being extended to two hundred years.

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