Peter Albrecht, who died at 123, married again at 80 and had seven children. Gurgon Duglas, who died at 120, married at 85 and had 8 children, the youngest one being born when the father was 103. Baron Baravicion dès Capelles died at 104, having had four wives, the last one whom he married when 80. Lorand adds that, according to his observations, old people with an erotic temperament have a better chance of survival than "cold blooded" ones. Hufeland says that married people live much longer than the unmarried and that no bachelor was ever known to reach a ripe age. The sudden bloom and general appearance of rejuvenation of old maids finally finding a mate, of widows who remarry and of neglected wives who give themselves to a potent lover, is a good physiological argument why winter should try to seek the violent stimulation of a union with spring. =The Fate of the Younger Mate.= The younger mate, however, can hardly hope to escape unscathed when going thru such an experience. The old are benefited because their muscles, nerves, glands, etc., imitate the attitudes and behavior of the younger mate's organs and become accordingly younger. The same process of imitation is at work in the younger mate and the damage done to him or her is naturally great, altho not always obvious at first. His or her younger organism, less experience-laden, and hence more elastic and more responsive, adapts itself more quickly to the ways of old age than old age adapts itself to the ways of youth. Even in cases when the gratification seems to be mutual, the damage done to the younger mate reveals itself thru neurotic disturbances. A man of thirty-five consulted for anxiety states, nightmares, "nervous" gastric troubles, etc. He had been living since his twentieth year with a woman twenty years his senior, in fact, a friend and schoolmate of his mother's. He called her Mama and she called him Sonny. While, according to his statements, their sexual life was absolutely normal and satisfying, the repressed incest-fear lurking in his unconscious betrayed itself thru a nightmare which disturbed his sleep with alarming frequency: "I am at the foot of marble stairs. A female figure is standing at the top, a relative, perhaps my mother. She extends her hand to me to help me up the stairs, but that hand is so weak that it cannot hold me and then I am frightened by a powerful male figure, a man in authority, perhaps my father, coming toward me from the side." Altho the man was physically satisfied, the split in his unconscious made him very irritable, restless and an unpleasant companion for his "mama" to whom he made endless scenes for trifling reasons. =King David.= In Biblical days when King David grew old,[2] his ministers besought themselves of the following remedy: they found a young virgin and "let her lie in his bosom" in the hope that the dying man might be revived by her contact. Even that availed nothing.