Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — Longevity Among Doctors. [ARTICLE]

Longevity Among Doctors.

The recent death of Dr. Reynold Salmon, in England, at the ripe age of 100, bears out the truth of Dr. Saltymann’s statistics regarding the increasing longevity among medical men. From the archives of his province, Dr. Saltymann shows that whereas the average duration of life among doctors in the sixteenth century was 36 years and 5 months, in the seventeenth century it had risen to 45 years and 8 months, and at the present time had reached 56 years and 7 months.