The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies. Élie Metchnikoff

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664619976

Table of Contents

       PART I THE INVESTIGATION OF OLD AGE

       I THE PROBLEMS OF SENILITY

       II THEORIES OF CAUSATION OF SENILITY

       III MECHANISM OF SENILITY

       PART II LONGEVITY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

       I THEORIES OF LONGEVITY

       II. LONGEVITY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

       III THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM AND SENILITY

       IV MICROBES AS THE CAUSE OF SENILITY

       V DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE

       PART III INVESTIGATIONS ON NATURAL DEATH

       I NATURAL DEATH AMONG PLANTS

       II NATURAL DEATH IN THE ANIMAL WORLD

       III NATURAL DEATH AMONGST HUMAN BEINGS

       PART IV SHOULD WE TRY TO PROLONG HUMAN LIFE?

       I THE BENEFIT TO HUMANITY

       II SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE

       III DISEASES THAT SHORTEN LIFE

       IV INTESTINAL PUTREFACTION SHORTENS LIFE

       V LACTIC ACID AS INHIBITING INTESTINAL PUTREFACTION

       PART V PSYCHICAL RUDIMENTS IN MAN

       I RUDIMENTARY ORGANS IN MAN

       II HUMAN TRAITS OF CHARACTER INHERITED FROM APES

       III SOMNAMBULISM AND HYSTERIA AS MENTAL RELICS

       PART VI SOME POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL ANIMALS

       I THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE

       II INSECT SOCIETIES

       III SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE HUMAN RACE

       PART VII PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM

       I PREVALENCE OF PESSIMISM

       II ANALYSIS OF PESSIMISM

       III PESSIMISM IN ITS RELATION TO HEALTH AND AGE

       PART VIII GOETHE AND FAUST

       I GOETHE’S YOUTH

       II GOETHE AND OPTIMISM

       III GOETHE’S OLD AGE

       IV GOETHE AND “FAUST”

       V THE OLD AGE OF FAUST

       PART IX SCIENCE AND MORALITY

       I UTILITARIAN AND INTUITIVE MORALITY

       II MORALITY AND HUMAN NATURE

       III INDIVIDUALISM

       IV ORTHOBIOSIS

       INDEX

      THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE

PART I

       THE INVESTIGATION OF OLD AGE

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I

       THE PROBLEMS OF SENILITY

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      Treatment of old people in uncivilised countries—Assassination of old people in civilised countries—Suicide of old people—Public assistance in old age—Centenarians—Mme. Robineau, a lady of 106 years of age—Principal characters of old age—Examples of old mammals—Old birds and tortoises—Hypothesis of senile