RENEWING ONE'S YOUTH AT OVER 100
One of the most curious cases of longevity, though not an extreme case, was described in a letter sent in 1657 to Fuller, who included the centenarian in his "Worthies.” The subject was the Rev. Patrick Mcllvain, minister of Lesbury, near Alnwick, in Northumberland. Born at Whithorn in Wigtonshire, in 1546, he was alive in 1657, when Fuller first heard of the case. Fuller's correspondent declared that he heard Mr Mcllvain, when over 100 years old, "perform the service and preach, as was his custom, using neither spectacles for reading nor notes for his sermon . . . Many years before he had exhibited the usual symptoms of decay, but latterly his eyesight had been restored, he had a fresh crop of thin, flaxen hair, and three new teeth appeared in his gums.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 15
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136RENEWING ONE'S YOUTH AT OVER 100 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 15
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