HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE?
If accidents and disease could be eliminated, it would be quite easy to classify mankind into “long livers’’— those who will live to seventy years and upwards—ancl those whose span of life will be in the neighbourhood of the fifties. Medical men and scientists are in agreement in stating tha? a long trunk and short limbs are infallible indications of longevity. The long trunk means that the organs of the body—heart, lungs, liver and so on —are sound and fully developed, with plenty of room for functioning. Trunk length, too, means longer organs, and investigation has proved that the soundest hearts and lungs are always long. Under normal conditions tuberculosis never attacks long lungs, nor does heart disease attack Ibrrg hearts. Smaller, but interesting, indications of longevity are long hands with short (but non-stumpy) fingers, and wide nostrils. The latter may or may not accompany large noses, but the nostril holes must be large and almond shaped. “Brain longevity” is indicated by the position of the ear orifices. The latter should be low. That always betokens a good-quality, deep-seated brain.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17783, 1 March 1926, Page 6
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185HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE? Star (Christchurch), Issue 17783, 1 March 1926, Page 6
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