Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — rules for Old People. [ARTICLE]

rules for Old People.

Science has demonstrated, as the deduction from many hundred observations. that old people should avoid high altitudes and that abundant sunshine is their best medicine. As to a sea voyage, they gain or lose by it much like others. It is obvious that the falling vitality—that is, the impaired vigor of circulation, assimilation and exertion which characterize advanced years and the spinal maladies most frequent at that time of life, such as rheumatism, cardiac disease, gout and renal affections—serve to determine the climatological problem, and thus, in a word, moderate warmth, with fair equability, abundance of sunshine, withadequatc shelter and level walks, evidently meet the most obvious indication! called for by these affections. The unsuitability of the mountala climate! to the aged is due primarily to ths cold, which depresses those in wbow the circulation is feobla.