A CENTENARIAN PHYSICIAN.
The oldest doctor in the world is assuredly ur. Jean David, wiao on Februai'y o celebrated, tne 102nd. anmversary of his biron at Montpellier. JtLe enjoys reniarnaoiy good health for his great age, his omy infirmity being failing eyesight, ror 50 years he practised at uraoeis as a country doctor, visiting his patients aany on horse-back. An ins yu-utn ne witnessed the march of Wellington and the Peninsula Army tnrougxi snutnem France after the battle oi louiouse. His first serious illness —an attack of typhoid fever —occurred when he was 63 years old. When lie was 01 he was attacked by congestion of the lungs, but promptly recovered, whereas his wife, to whom he had been married 63 years, and who was subjected to a similar illness, succumbed to it. His recipe for longevity is “Sobriety in ah respects. The human body is a wonderful machine, whose organs should never be overtaxed. For my part 1 continue living much as I have always lived. I am only worried by one thing—the idleness to which my fin ing eyesight has now condemned me.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)
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185A CENTENARIAN PHYSICIAN. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)
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