on and a father, from a village called
Dent, who were witnesses before a jury at York in 1664. The son was
above one hundred and the father above one hundred and forty. John
Moore died in 1805 aged one hundred and seven. His father died at one
hundred and five and his grandfather at one hundred and fifteen, making
a total of three hundred and twenty-seven years for the three
generations. Recently, Wynter mentions four sisters,--of one hundred,
one hundred and three, one hundred and five, and one hundred and seven
years respectively. On the register of Bremhill 1696, is the following
remarkable entry: "Buried, September 29th, Edith Goldie, Grace Young,
and Elizabeth Wiltshire, their united ages making three hundred." As
late as 1886 in the district of Campinos there was a strong active man
named Joseph Joachim de Prado, of good family, who was one hundred and
seven years old. His mother died by accident at one hundred and
twelve, and his maternal grandmother died at one hundred and twenty-two.

Longevity in Active Military Service.--One of the most remarkable
proofs that under fickle fortune, constant danger, and the most
destructive influences the life of man may be long preserved is
exemplified in the case of an old soldier named Mittelstedt, who died
in Prussia in 1792, aged one hundred and twelve. He was born at Fissalm
in June, 1681. He entered the army, served under three Kings, Frederick
I, Frederick William I, and Frederick II, and did active service in the
Seven Years' War, in which his horse was shot under him and he was
taken prisoner by the Russians. In his sixty-eight years of army
service he participated in 17 general engagements, braved numerous
dangers, and was wounded many times. After his turbulent life he
married, and at last in 1790, in his one hundred and tenth year, he
took a third wife. Until shortly before his death he walked every
month to the pension office, a distance of two miles from his house.

Longevity in Physicians.--It may be of interest to the members of our
profession to learn of some instances of longevity among confreres. Dr.
R. Baynes of Rockland, Maine, has been mentioned in the list of "grand
old men" in medicine; following in the footsteps of Hippocrates and
Galen, he was practicing at ninety-nine. He lives on Graham's diet,
which is a form of vegetarianism; he does not eat potatoes, but does
eat fruit. His drink is almost entirely water, milk, and chocolate, and
he condemns