Longevity: the Means of Prolonging Life After Middle Age
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The newspapers, and even the medical press, are constantly 1 68 Popular Errors. inserting accounts of persons dying at fabulous ages, with- out the slightest inquiry or proof ; and Mr. Thorns rebukes what he calls the childlike faith of men eminent in the medical profession in accepting such stories as true, while they ostentatiously proclaim their scepticism respecting the origin of man, and other well-established facts. This disposition to embrace and hold fast sensational errors, and to reje...ct simple truth, is not confined to medical men. We cannot, however, be surprised at finding popular opinion formed and held without evidence when we read in the Times such paragraphs as this : — " Longevity. — The report recently issued by the Registrar- General, relating to the year 1871, contained further testi- mony on the subject of long life. In 1871 the following deaths were registered in England, the ages (like other particulars) being, taken on the statement of the relatives or other persons supplying information of the death.
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