134 EX VIRIBUS VIVIMUS. 



Other epileptic patient I have ever known, his fits 

 were frequent and inordinately violent, but did not 

 kill him till he was seventy-three : Lemuel, killed at 

 the battle of Waterloo : Frances Mary, a married 

 woman who died, aetat. 42, after giving birth to 

 several children : and Louisa, a spinster, who was 

 born December 23, 1791, and still lives a very vigorous 

 woman for one of her years.' 



I am also indebted to Mr. Cordy Jeaffreson for a 

 notice of the case of the father of the Rev. Thomas 

 Hart Davies, chaplain at the Dockyard, Portsmouth, 

 in 1 800. This gentleman died at tlie supposed age of 

 116, but his age was afterwards investigated and found 

 to be only 109. 



Sir Henry Holland informs me that last summer 

 he breakfasted on the St. Lawrence, in America, with 

 a British officer, whose commission proved him to 

 be 104 years of age. Sir Henry also has evidence of 

 a case in which the age of 1 1 1 years was reached. 



On a priori grounds we have seen no reason to 

 believe that man should not have a higher longevity 

 than 100 years as a monstrous and abnormal phe- 

 nomenon, and on this consideration we may be not 

 indisposed to accept statements as to ages as great 

 as 110, or even 120 years being attained, even though 

 such an occurrence were not absolutely demonstrated 

 and proved. 



The expenditure implied in distinction, and the 

 generative expenditure implied in twenty-two children, 



