Voigt admits the
extreme age of one hundred and sixty.
There was a woman living in Moscow in 1848 who was said to be one
hundred and sixty-eight; she had been married five times and was
one hundred and twenty-one at her last wedding. D'Azara records
the age of one hundred and eighty, and Roequefort speaks of two
cases at one hundred and fifty.
There are stories of an Englishman who lived in the sixteenth
century to be two hundred and seven, and there is a parallel case
cited.
Van Owen tabulates 331 cases of deaths between 110 and 120, 91
between 120 and 130, 37 between 130 and 140, 11 at 150, and 17
beyond this age. While not vouching for the authenticity in each
case, he has always given the sources of information.
Quite celebrated in English history by Raleigh and Bacon was the
venerable Countess Desmond, who appeared at Court in 1614, being
one hundred and forty years old and in full possession of all her
powers, mental and physical. There are several portraits of her
at this advanced age still to be seen. Lord Bacon also mentions a
man named Marcus Appenius, living in Rimini, who was registered
by a Vespasian tax-collector as being one hundred and fifty.
There are records of Russians who have lived to one hundred and
twenty-five, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty-five,
one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty.
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