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Show PRECOCIOUS SENILITY. Valuable lives Snuffed Out In Youth and Middle Age by Disease Dis-ease of Age, Precocious senility, when marked and rapid, Is bo rare as to be mere academic acad-emic Interest, a patheloglc curiosity. Birch as the recorded Instance of children of six years dying with arteriosclerosis arter-iosclerosis am' other signs of extreme age, says American Medicine. Even tho very uncommon, but a much larger number of milder cases 'isvi? bo long been noted asxo have given rise to the axiom that a man Is ns old as his arteries. ar-teries. These cases deserve more thought than is given to thsm, not so much to discover cures ns to prevent decay, nnd snvo to society so many valuable lives which are now snuffod out In tho middle age by diseases of the fenlle. There has been much wild speculation on the subject, chiefly in lay Journals, and due, no doubt, to some more or less sensational investigations investi-gations of MetchnikofT on tho causes of normal senllty and the possibility 'of prolonging human life beyond tho century mark. Yet It Is n serious problem prob-lem nnd we should know what Is the stimulus which makes one orgnnlsm go through nil Us life changes In 50 years, whllo another under apparently Identical 'conditions lasts 30 years longer. V |