 ... alive. He, by the quickness of the faculties of the mind, and the activity of the organs of his body, shows the great benefit of a low diet, — living altogether on vegetable food and pure water. Henry Jenkins lived to one hundred and sixty-nine...  The Medical Works of Dr. Richard Mead - Page 11by Richard Mead - 1765Full view - About this book
 | M. de Lignac (Louis François Luc) - Sex instruction - 1798 - 494 pages
...the celebrated Thomas Parr. It is univerfally known, that this man, who was born in Shropshire, died at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months; but many perfons are ignorant that, at the age of a hundred and twenty, having efpoufed a widow, the... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - Food - 1838 - 302 pages
...Jenkins lived to one hundred and sixty-nine years on a low, coarse, and simple diet. Thomas Parr died at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. His diet was coarse bread, milk, cheese, whey and small beer; and his historian tells us, that he might... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - Vegetarianism - 1838 - 300 pages
...Jenkins lived to one hundred and sixty-nine years on a low, coarse, and simple diet. Thomas Parr died at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. His diet was coarse bread, milk, cheese, whey and small beer; and his historian tells us, that he might... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - 1845 - 456 pages
...diet: he informs us that it was coarse and sour;— that is, plain and cooling, Old Parr, who died at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months, lived on old cheese, milk, coarse bread, small beer, and whey: these, with pure air and exercise, were... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 528 pages
...Arundel took him to the court of Charles I., where he died through the change of air and mode of living, at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. His body was opened by Dr. Harvey, who discovered no internal marks of decay. — A grandson of Parr died in Shropshire, at... | |
 | George Waterhouse - Marriage counseling - 1849 - 272 pages
...history of the celebrated Thomas Parr. It is universally known that this man, born in Shropshire, died at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months ; but many persons are ignorant that, at the age of a hundred and twenty, having espoused a widow,... | |
 | John Gorton - Biography - 1851 - 636 pages
...Arundel took him to the court of Charles 1 ; but the change of diet and air affected his health, and he died at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. His body was opened by Dr Harvey, who found no signs of internal decay. Parr had a grandson, who lived to the age of one hundred... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - History - 1854 - 334 pages
...his diet : he informs us that it was coarse and sour ; that is, plain and cooling. Old Parr, who died at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months, lived on old cheese, milk, coarse bread, small beer, and whey : these, with pure air and exercise,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 440 pages
...There were two " old Parrs," Pill-Parr and Wig-Parr. Pill-Parr was bom in 1483, and died, it is said, at the age of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. Wig-Parr born in 1751, died in 1825. OLD PABR. 219 immediately recollec it — but, can it be true,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1860 - 568 pages
...in the court of Charles I., where he was exhibited by the Earl of Arundel, died in 1635, at the nge of one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. His body was opened by Dr. Harvey, who discovered no internal marks of decay.] WHITE ELEPHANT. — I have recently seen an... | |
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