In 1787, long after he
had lost all his teeth, eight new ones appeared, and at the end
of six months they again dropped out, but their place was
supplied by other new ones, and Nature, unwearied, continued this
process until his death. All these teeth he had acquired and lost
without pain, the whole number amounting to 150. Alice, a slave
born in Philadelphia, and living in 1802 at the age of one
hundred and sixteen, remembered William Penn and Thomas Story.
Her faculties were well preserved, but she partially lost her
eyesight at ninety-six, which, strange to say, returned in part
at one hundred and two. There was a woman by the name of Helen
Gray who died in her one hundred and fifth year, and who but a
few years before her death had acquired a new set of teeth.
In Wilson's "Healthy Skin" are mentioned several instances of
very old persons in whom the natural color of the hair returned
after they had been gray for years. One of them was John Weeks,
whose hair became brown again at one hundred and fourteen. Sir
John Sinclair a mentions a similar case in a Scotchman who lived
to one hundred and ten. Susan Edmonds when in her ninety-fifth
year recovered her black hair, but previously to her death at one
hundred and five again became gray.
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