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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VIII
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He died in good mental condition at the age of one hundred and fifteen.

Anthony Senish, a farmer of the village of Limoges, died in 1770 in his one hundred and eleventh year.
He labored until two weeks before his death, had still his hair, and his sight had not failed him.

His usual food was chestnuts and Turkish corn; he had never been bled or used any medicine.

Not very long ago there was alive in Tacony, near Philadelphia, a shoemaker named R.Glen in his one hundred and fourteenth year.

He had seen King William III, and all his faculties were perfectly retained; he enjoyed good health, walking weekly to Philadelphia to church.


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