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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VIII
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Her faculties were well preserved, but she partially lost her eyesight at ninety-six, which, strange to say, returned in part at one hundred and two.

There was a woman by the name of Helen Gray who died in her one hundred and fifth year, and who but a few years before her death had acquired a new set of teeth.
In Wilson's "Healthy Skin" are mentioned several instances of very old persons in whom the natural color of the hair returned after they had been gray for years.

One of them was John Weeks, whose hair became brown again at one hundred and fourteen.

Sir John Sinclair a mentions a similar case in a Scotchman who lived to one hundred and ten.

Susan Edmonds when in her ninety-fifth year recovered her black hair, but previously to her death at one hundred and five again became gray.
There was a Dr.Slave who at the age of eighty had a renewal of rich brown hair, which he maintained until his death at one hundred.


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