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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VIII
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His third wife was but thirty years old.
Longevity in Ireland .-- Lord Bacon said that at one time there was not a village in all Ireland in which there was not a man living upward of eighty.

In Dunsford, a small village, there were living at one time 80 persons above the age of four score.

Colonel Thomas Winslow was supposed to have died in Ireland on August 26, 1766, aged one hundred and forty-six.

There was a man by the name of Butler who died at Kilkenny in 1769 aged one hundred and thirty-three.

He rode after the hounds while yet a centenarian.


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