Show 1 any aily Health Service eart 1 art Trouble Leading Ailment Among Elderly If r DR DE MORRIS 2 FISHBEIN IN j ng nS life Ufe without a reasonable e i tint nt of good health healt is not Iy Iy lya a blessing It was found many ago that in n a group of p people ople se ie fathers and mothers had both Td d cf to to 80 years there was an averit avert aver- aver it t r ratIon of at life We of at years reas in another group whose ers d mothers had di died d b before ere was was' an average duration of of only yc years s. s ong life is an inherited charac charac- tic Oliver OIiver Wendell Holmes said W way to live Ion a was to pick who lived long i a a recent su U rep re n. n nellys r. r ellys F F. Barker points out that Ire re are differences in the ways ways- in ih disease attacks the ag aged d and Looting pungo N Nearly arl half of ot all ll old peo pea die e as a result of some disorder e clr circulatory system particular particular- th the e heart so so that the physician l attends old people is constantly the watch for lor such symptoms as of breath swelling of the thc ibs hs or other signs of the breaking wn wn a of the circulatory power n the older person with a weaken weaken- circulation f one must be exceed exceed- IngI y careful in the giving giving i of vigor ous massage or heart gymnastics On the other other hand mild rubs and massage massage mas mas- sage ma may aid the circulation of t the c blood and andin in addition prod produce ce a feeling feeling feel feel- ing of rest and relief Dr William Osier to used to call pneumonia pneumonia monia mania monia th the old mans man's friend principally principally principally pally be because it brought death fairly suddenly sUdden to people who had lived long and usef useful lives and who were confronted con fronted with an old age full tull o of pain and distress Very few people indeed die of ofa a simple gradual wearing out of living tissues This ph physiological old age f if it occurs takes takei place around 90 00 years Most people die instead from some sonic sudden breaking down of ot an organ or tissue Dr Barker points paints out that no human organism can live longer than the potential period set by the energy charge of Df the fertilized egg cell coil from which it starts This energy charge or inherited vitality is gradually gradually grad grad- worn out during life However it Is possible to save energy energy energy en en- ergy b by leading a good exIstence ex ex- stence and by avoiding accidental death from infectious dise disease se or other types of accidents like those which occur in traffic |