Extract, 'Part of a dissertation on the critical changes and alterations that happen to some old peoples, who have seem'd to grow young again' by Monsieur Begour Extract from the Memoirs for the History of Arts and Sciences at Trévoux [France] for November 1708. Begour discusses whether or not old age is 'curable' and gives examples of individuals living in Velai near Puys [Le Puys-en-Velay, France] who seem to have gotten younger with age, including a woman who grew new molars in her seventies, a man in his eighties who no longer required spectacles, a man who had children in his eighties, and a one-hundred-year-old woman who began menstruating again after fifty years. Subject: Physiology Read to the Royal Society on 2 February 1709. [1708]