The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic StudiesMetchnikoff, Elie
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The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies
Metchnikoff, Elie
Aging; Hygiene; Longevity; Older people -- Social conditions
Josué, M., artificial production of atheroma, 32
Jousset, Dr., on difference between man and apes, 184
Kant, 309, 310
Kautsky, on socialism, 229, 230
Kentigern, age of, 87
Kephir, 171, 172, 173
Khoury, M., on ferment of Egyptian milk, 105
Kocher, Dr., on effects of extirpation of thyroid gland, 33
Kocher, Prof., case of removal of large intestine, 152, 153
Kölliker, on degeneration of muscles, 27
Koppenfels, on character of gorilla, 194
Koumiss, 172
Kowalevsky, Sophie, 225
Kowalevsky, analysis of pessimism, 241, 255
Kukula, experiments on intestinal poisons, 69, 70
Kwass, 166
Lactic bacilli, and putrefaction in intestine, 168
Laignel-Lavastine, M., criticism of neuronophagy, 20
Lankester, Sir E. Ray, on longevity, 12, 56
Lao-Tsé, and immortality, 137
Laud, Archbishop, old tortoise of, 51
Lautschenberger, on absorption in colon, 64
Lavater, Goethe’s letter to, 268
Laws aiding the aged, 3, 4
“Leben,” Egyptian, 105, 171, 177, 178
Le Bon, G., on hysteria in crowds, 209
Lenau, M., 236
Lenthéric, on elephants swimming, 197
Leopardi, G., pessimistic poet, 235, 236, 247
Le Play, M., on putrefactive poisons, 69
Léri, M., on senile brain, 20
Lermontoff, 236
Leucomaines, as cause of sleep, 121
Levaillant, on longevity of parrots, 52
Lewes, G. H., on Goethe, 273, 290, 292, 298
Lexis, on duration of human life, 85
Life, duration of, in animals, 39 _et seq._
Life, prolongation of human, 132, _et seq._
“sense” of, 260
Lima, Dr., on use of soured milk in Africa, 172, 174
Lloyd, M., old anemone of, 47
Loewenberg, Dr., on Mde. Robineau, 7
London Zoological Gardens, 51, 81
Longevity, in animal kingdom, 47 _et seq._
human, 84 _et seq._
rules for, 141
in sexes, 44
theories of, 39
Lorand, Dr., on ductless glands, 32
Love, Goethe and, 272
Luxury, 321
Macfadyen, Nencki and Mde. Sieber, on digestion, 153, 161
Macrophags, 25, 147
Mailaender, 235, 255
Malaquin, M., on _Monstrilla_, 116, 117
Male rotifers, death of, 114, 115
Malthus, theory of, 214
Mammals, longevity of, 53
Mammary glands, in males, 186
Man, compared with apes, 184, 185
natural death of, 119 _et seq._
longevity of, 84 _et seq._
Manouélian, M., on neuronophagy, 21, 22
Marinesco, M., on neuronophogs, 19
Marrow of the bones, in old age, 37
_Marsiliaceæ_, duration of life of prothallus, 99
Martin, on Gibbons, 192
Massart, on cause of death in plants, 102, 109
Massol, Prof., 178
Mastication, and intestinal putrefaction, 160
Matchinsky, M., on atrophy of ovary, 26
Maternal instinct, 319, 320
Mauclaire, M., operations on large intestine, 153, 154, 155
Maumus, M., on digestion in cæca, 61
Mauritius, giant tortoise from, 12
Maupas, M., on infusoria, 13
Maya, 178
Mayers, on Chinese elixir, 138
Meconium, appearance of microbes in, 161
Medical selection, 134
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