THE REAL CAUSE OF DEATH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2234, 30 July 1891, Page 3

THE REAL CAUSE OF DEATH.

The most common cause of death is fat and lime. Microbes are mere accessories in causing death. Take myself as a case in point. Once, when younger, I'could lift my leg on a level, with my head, writes a doctor in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is an effort for me now to get it half that distance. Lime deposits are the cause of it. It is only a few days since that I performed a post-mortem on the remains of a distinguished journalist who died in this city at an advanced age. When I reached his heart I took my knife and on rubbing it over that organ it sounded as if it had been over a rough stone. The heart was fairly encased in lime. I have now under my care a distinguished literary man—a nonogenarian. He is going to die. (The patient has since died. ) His death will be caused by abnormal deposits of lime. There is no mystery in death. It is as natural for man to die as to be born. We are bom, we develop, we grow, (“ grow ”is right,) and we die; Is there anything strange about that ? Man is like a tree. He lives his time, then wither, decays, and dies. When we shall have learned everything we shall be wise enough to prolong the life of man, but by reason of the materials of which the body is composed he must die.