The Prolongation Of Life

About this eBook

Author

Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916

Title

The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies

Credits

Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Older people -- Social conditions

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51521

Release Date

March 21, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE
2. 2.EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.PART I THE INVESTIGATION OF OLD AGE — I THE PROBLEMS OF SENILITY — II THEORIES OF CAUSATION OF SENILITY — III MECHANISM OF SENILITY
6. 6.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
7. 7.PART III INVESTIGATIONS ON NATURAL DEATH — I NATURAL DEATH AMONG PLANTS — II NATURAL DEATH IN THE ANIMAL WORLD — III NATURAL DEATH AMONGST HUMAN BEINGS
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.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
11. 11.PART VII PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM — I PREVALENCE OF PESSIMISM — II ANALYSIS OF PESSIMISM — III PESSIMISM IN ITS RELATION TO HEALTH AND AGE
12. 12.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
13. 13.PART IX SCIENCE AND MORALITY — I UTILITARIAN AND INTUITIVE MORALITY — II MORALITY AND HUMAN NATURE — III INDIVIDUALISM — IV ORTHOBIOSIS
14. 14.FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.INDEX

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