Description | 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. |