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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VIII
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In the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, as late as 1893 a man died at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven.

The census of 1864 for the town of Pilaguin, Ecuador, lying 11,000 feet above the level of the sea and consisting of about 2000 inhabitants, gives 100 above seventy, 30 above ninety, five above one hundred, and one at one hundred and fifteen years.
Francis Auge died in Maryland in 1767 at the age of one hundred and thirty-four.

He remembered the execution of Charles I and had a son born to him after he was one hundred.
There are several other instances in which men have displayed generative ability in old age.

John Gilley, who died in Augusta, Maine, in 1813, was born in Ireland in 1690.

He came to this country at the age of sixty, and continued in single blessedness until seventy-five, when he married a girl of eighteen, by whom he had eight children.


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