INDICATIONS OF LONGEVITY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1906, Page 1

INDICATIONS OF LONGEVITY.

In the medical world it is a generally accepted fact that every person bears physical indications of his prospects of long life. A long-lived person may be distinguished from a shortlived person at sight. In many instances a physician may look at the hand of a patient and tell whether he will live or die.

The primary conditions of longevity aro that the heart, lungs, and digestive organs, as well as the brain, should be large. If these organs are large the trunk will be long and the limbs comparatively short. The person will appear tall in sitting and short in standing. The hand will have a long and somewhat heavy palm and short fingers. The brain will be deeply seated, as shown by the orifice of the ear being low. The blue hazel or brown hazel eye, as showing an intermission of temperament, is a favourable indication. The nostrils, if large, open, free, indicate large lungs.

These are general points of distinction, but, of course, subject to the usual individual exceptions.—New York Herald.