destroyed."

Recent Instances of Longevity.--There was a man who died in Spain at
the advanced age of one hundred and fifty-one, which is the most
extraordinary instance from that country. It is reported that quite
recently a Chinese centenarian passed the examination for the highest
place in the Academy of Mandarins. Chevreul, born in 1786, at Angers,
has only recently died after an active life in chemical investigation.
Sir Moses Montefiore is a recent example of an active centenarian.

In the New York Herald of April 21, 1895, is a description and a
portrait of Noah Raby of the Piscataway Poor Farm of New Jersey, to
whom was ascribed one hundred and twenty-three years. He was discharged
from active duty on the "Brandywine," U.S.N., eighty-three years ago.
He relates having heard George Washington speak at Washington and at
Portsmouth while his ship was in those places. The same journal also
says that at Wichita, Kansas, there appeared at a municipal election an
old negress named Mrs. Harriet McMurray, who gave her age as one
hundred and fifteen. She had been a slave, and asserted that once on a
visit to Alexandria with her master she had seen General Washington.
From the Indian Medical Record we learn that Lieutenant Nicholas Lavin
of the Grand Armee died several years ago at the age of one hundred and
twenty-five, leaving a daughter of seventy-eight. He was born in Paris
in 1768, served as a hussar in several campaigns, and was taken a
prisoner during the retreat from Moscow. After his liberation he
married and made his residence in Saratoff.

CHAPTER IX.

PHYSIOLOGIC AND FUNCTIONAL ANOMALIES.

In considering the anomalies of the secretions, it must be remembered
that the ingestion of certain kinds of food and the administration of
peculiar drugs in medicine have a marked influence in coloring
secretions. Probably the most interesting of all these anomalies is the
class in which, by a compensatory process, metastasis of the secretions
is noticed.

Colored Saliva.--Among the older writers the Ephemerides contains an
account of blue saliva; Huxham speaks of green saliva; Marcellus
Donatus of yellow, and Peterman relates the history of a case of yellow
saliva. Dickinson describes a woman of sixty whose saliva was blue;
besides this nothing was definitely the matter with her. It seemed
however, that the color was due to some chemic-pencil poisoning rather
than to a pathologic process. A piece of this anili