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After his turbulent life he married, and at last in 1790, in his one hundred and tenth year, he took a third wife.
Until shortly before his death he walked every month to the pension office, a distance of two miles from his house. Longevity in Physicians .-- It may be of interest to the members of our profession to learn of some instances of longevity among confreres.
Dr. R.Baynes of Rockland, Maine, has been mentioned in the list of "grand old men" in medicine; following in the footsteps of Hippocrates and Galen, he was practicing at ninety-nine.
He lives on Graham's diet, which is a form of vegetarianism; he does not eat potatoes, but does eat fruit.
His drink is almost entirely water, milk, and chocolate, and he condemns the use of tea, coffee, liquors, and tobacco.
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