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The Prolongation of Life

by Elie Metchnikoff

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  1. 1Editor’s Introduction
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4Part I — The Investigation of Old Age
  5. 5II — Theories of Causation of Senility
  6. 6III — Mechanism of Senility
  7. 7Part II — Longevity in the Animal Kingdom
  8. 8II — Longevity in the Animal Kingdom
  9. 9III — The Digestive System and Senility
  10. 10IV — Microbes as the Cause of Senility
  11. 11V — Duration of Human Life
  12. 12Part III — Investigations on Natural Death
  13. 13II — Natural Death in the Animal World
  14. 14III — Natural Death Amongst Human Beings
  15. 15Part IV — Should We Try to Prolong Human Life?
  16. 16II — Suggestions for the Prolongation of Life
  17. 17III — Diseases That Shorten Life
  18. 18IV — Intestinal Putrefaction Shortens Life
  19. 19V — Lactic Acid as Inhibiting Intestinal Putrefaction
  20. 20Part V — Psychical Rudiments in Man
  21. 21II — Human Traits of Character Inherited From Apes
  22. 22III — Somnambulism and Hysteria as Mental Relics
  23. 23Part VI — Some Points in the History of Social Animals
  24. 24II — Insect Societies
  25. 25III — Society and the Individual in the Human Race
  26. 26Part VII — Pessimism and Optimism
  27. 27II — Analysis of Pessimism
  28. 28III — Pessimism in Its Relation to Health and Age
  29. 29Part VIII — Goethe and Faust
  30. 30II — Goethe and Optimism
  31. 31III — Goethe’s Old Age
  32. 32IV — Goethe and “Faust”
  33. 33V — The Old Age of Faust
  34. 34Part IX — Science and Morality
  35. 35II — Morality and Human Nature
  36. 36III — Individualism
  37. 37IV — Orthobiosis

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