He has
an iron reclining chair, over which he spreads a few blankets and
rugs.
The British Medical Journal speaks of Dr. Boisy of Havre, who is
one hundred and three. It is said he goes his rounds every day,
his practice being chiefly among the poor. At one time he
practiced in India. He has taken alcoholic beverages and smoked
tobacco since his youth, although in moderation. His father, it
is added, died at the age of one hundred and eight. Mr. William
R. Salmon, living near Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, recently
celebrated his one hundred and sixth birthday. Mr. Salmon was
born at Wickham Market in 1790, and became a member of the Royal
College of Surgeons in 1809, the year in which Gladstone was
born. He died April 11, 1896. In reference to this wonderful old
physician the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1896,
page 995, says--
"William Reynold Salmon, M.R.C.S., of Penllyn Court, Cowbridge,
Glamorganshire, South Wales, completed his one hundred and sixth
year on March 16th, and died on the 11th of the present month--at
the time of his death the oldest known individual of indisputably
authenticated age, the oldest physician, the oldest member of the
Royal College of Surgeons, England, and the oldest Freemason in
the world.
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