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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VIII
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There are also records of a man in Stockholm of one hundred who had several children by a wife of thirty.
On August 7, 1776, Mary, the wife of Joseph Yates, at Lizard Common not far from London, was buried at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven.
She had walked to London in 1666, and was hearty and strong at one hundred and twenty, and had married a third husband at ninety-two.
A case without parallel, of long survival of a deaf mute, is found in Mrs.Gray of Northfleet, Kent, who died in 1770, one hundred and twenty-one years old.

She was noted for her cheerful disposition, and apparently enjoyed life in spite of her infirmity, which lasted one hundred and twenty-one years.
Macklin the actor was born in 1697 and died in 1797.

Several years before his death he played "Shylock," displaying great vigor in the first act, but in the second his memory failed him, and with much grace and solemnity he advanced to the foot-lights and apologized for his inability to continue.

It is worthy of remark that several instances of longevity in Roman actresses have been recorded.

One Luceja, who came on the stage very young, performed a whole century, and even made her public appearance in her one hundred and twelfth year.


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