lure,
either in memory or in judgment; he died with the reputation of being
the most eloquent man in Greece. Xenophilus, an eminent Pythagorean
philosopher, taught a numerous train of students till he arrived at
the age of 105, and even then enjoyed a very perfect health, and left
this world before his abilities left him. Platerus tells us that his
grandfather, who exercised the office of a preceptor to some young
nobleman, married a woman of thirty when he was in the 100th year of
his age. His son by this marriage did not stay like his father, but
took him a wife when he was twenty; the old man was in full health and
spirits at the wedding, and lived six years afterward. Francis Secordo
Horigi, usually distinguished by the name of Huppazoli, was consul for
the State of Venice in the island of Scio, where he died in the
beginning of 1702, when he was very near 115. He married in Scio when
he was young, and being much addicted to the fair sex, he had in all
five wives, and fifteen or twenty concubines, all of them young,
beautiful women, by whom he had forty-nine sons and daughters, whom he
educated with the utmost tenderness, and was constantly with them, as
much as his business would permit. He was never sick. His sight,
hearing, memory, and activity were amazing. He walked every day about
eight miles; his hair, which was long and graceful, became white by
the time that he was four-score, but turned black at 100, as did his
eyebrows and beard at 112. At 110 he lost all his teeth, but the year
before he died he cut two large ones with great pain. His food was
generally a few spoonfuls of broth, after which he ate some little
thing roasted; his breakfast and supper, bread and fruit; his constant
drink, distilled water, without any addition of wine or other strong
liquor to the very last. He was a man of strict honor, of great
abilities, of a free, pleasant, and sprightly temper, as we are told
by many travellers, who were all struck with the good sense and good
humor of this polite old man."

"In the same country (as Thomas Parr) lived the famous Countess of
Desmond. From deeds, settlements, and other indisputable testimonies
it appeared clearly that she was upwards of 140, according to the
computation of the great Lord Bacon, who knew her personally, and
remarks this particularity about her, that she thrice changed her
teeth."

The stern scepticism of the medical profession and especially among
its leaders has borne