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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VIII
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There are several portraits of her at this advanced age still to be seen.

Lord Bacon also mentions a man named Marcus Appenius, living in Rimini, who was registered by a Vespasian tax-collector as being one hundred and fifty.
There are records of Russians who have lived to one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty.

Nemnich speaks of Thomas Newman living in Bridlington at one hundred and fifty-three years.

Nemnich is confirmed in his account of Thomas Newman by his tombstone in Yorkshire, dated 1542.
In the chancel of the Honington Church, Wiltshire, is a black marble monument to the memory of G.Stanley, gent., who died in 1719, aged one hundred and fifty-one.
There was a Dane named Draakenburg, born in 1623, who until his ninety-first year served as a seaman in the royal navy, and had spent fifteen years of his life in Turkey as a slave in the greatest misery.
He was married at one hundred and ten to a woman of sixty, but outlived her a long time, in his one hundred and thirtieth year he again fell in love with a young country girl, who, as may well be supposed, rejected him.

He died in 1772 in his one hundred and forty-sixth year.


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