He went
to St. Louis forty years ago, and has always been known as the
"color doctor." In his peculiar practice of medicine he termed
his patients members of his "circles," and claimed to treat them
by a magnetic process. Dr. A. J. Buck says that his Masonic
record has been traced back one hundred years, showing
conclusively that he was one hundred and twenty-one years old. A
letter received from his old home in Virginia, over a year ago,
says that he was born there in 1755.
It is comforting to the members of our profession, in which the
average of life is usually so low, to be able to point out
exceptions. It has been aptly said of physicians in general:
"Aliis inserviendo consumuntur; aliis medendo moriuntur," or "In
serving others they are consumed; in healing others they are
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.
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