Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — NATURAL AIDS TO LONGEVITY. [ARTICLE]

NATURAL AIDS TO LONGEVITY.

A Light end Diy AWspphr* MOV Add Ten Years to L|fn. 8»jr» This Writer. * There are two sorts of pressure which tend to shorten lifts blood prost ure within aall atmospheric p>assure ! without. The latter Is a specially imI portant factor ip a humid climate. In advancing ago the circulation of the r bl aid at.d, lymph toads to become slow, and the ciifeubieti heart finds fti omburaastnents increased by this condition. k'spociully doth- mre vascular organs such' as thftAjMngs, the livor, anti tho klda last skids on the whe ds of t&9 ,> blbod circulation. Plainly, then, an 'important condition of card lac ea* ifiiont, and therefore of life prolongation, U the maintenance of an u neon State of lung, liver, an l kidney. Thus are Internal nressures relieved, and thna is c trdiat: energy con; ervnd. Of almost equal importance, at any rate Ip Great Britain, is tho t uostiW) of atmospheric pressure and mpfstfiiro to aged persons. Situations which sro at once low-lying and damp give, Of earns, a maximum of atmosphericpressure. Such pressure woighs down at a single stroke body, mind, ard life. The dlfTeronoo to aged nersdns'betwocn living at tho son level and living , r >OQ foot above it, between living in a moist atmosphere und living in U dry tone, is somerimos quite incaloulab «, Not seldom life may be lengthened % five or even ton year.-t by living in an which is both light and dry. These physiological considerations are commended to the aged And to the physicians of tho aged.^LbHdon'HospitaL **>