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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7270, 25 July 1893, Page 3

An American physician comes forward to invite all of his fellow human beings who are reasonably healthy to prolong their life to the ripe old age of 200. Borne, ha admits, may prefer the present limit, believing that the rest is " labour and sorrow.” To such he calmly answers : “ Take your choice.” Dr William Kinnear bases his theory upon the fact that old ago is practically a “ deposit of earthy matter of a gelatinous and fibrinous character in the system*” To postpone old age, therefore, it is necessary to arrest this process of ossification, which may be done in two ways. First, avoid foods containing an excess of “ earthy salts ” —that is, live on fruit, fish, poultry, young muttcn, and veal. Second, dissolve these salts out of the system and counteract them chemically. The American elixir of life is, therefore, several tumblerfuls of distilled water each day, with ten drops of dilate phosphoric acid in each.