Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — A Curious Book. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Book.

A remarkable book has appeared in Germany, written by one Herr Cobhausen, entitled “ Of the Bare Art of Prolonging Life till 115 Years by the Breath of Young Maidens upon One.” The method recommended is based upon the inscription of a monument said to have been discovered at Rome by a Bolognese autiquary, Gommarus. The inscription runs : “To yEsculapiusand Health, L. Clod ins Hermippus, who lived 115 years and five days through the breath of young maidens, erects this monument. ” Hermippus seems to have been a teacher of girls in Rome, who attributed his unusual length of life to the breath of those with whom ho was daily associated. And now his hypothesis is revived after the lapse of centuries.