Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Longevity: The Means of Prolonging Life After Middle Age
TO attain to a lengthened life, to enjoy ease and tranquillity in life's decline, and immunity from pain, debility, and other forms Of suffering, are Objects worthy of far more earnest attention than they usually receive.
At the dawn of modern science, when the prop etties of natural bodies began to be Observed, men sought to find the philosopher's stone, and an elixir vita; hoping to preserve life forever, or at least for a long and indefinite period, and to Obtain wealth by a Short and easy process.
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