Eating monkey brains, drinking blood and 22 different ways man has attempted to cheat passing
1600 B.C.
An antiwrinkle formula for "changing an old man into a young" is recorded on the back of an antiquated papyrus. It calls for water blended with something many refer to as hemayet natural product, and after that bubbled and dried.
Sixth CENTURY B.C. [BATHS] [POWDERED METALS]
The individuals who need to carry on with a more extended life are informed to expend a blend concerning root powder, gold, nectar and margarine after a morning shower, as indicated by the Sushruta Samhita, an old Sanskrit medicinal content.
133 B.C. [POWDERED METALS]
Chemist Li Shao Chun prompts the Han Emperor to eat with utensils made of gold transmuted from cinnabar, a conceivably harmful substance referred to today as mercury sulfide.
First CENTURY B.C. [BATHS]
Cleopatra as far as anyone knows washes in jackass' drain to save her young excellence. It was basically a skin treatment.
First CENTURY [BLOOD]
Pliny the Elder reports of Romans with epilepsy racing to drink blood from fighters to cure their infirmity and pick up quality and force. (Pliny did not think this was a smart thought.)
Around 300 [ANIMAL ORGANS]
For old Taoists, the perfect eating routine for life span incorporates flavors, vegetables, turtles, crane eggs and other nourishment from long-living animals. Doing breath practices and refraining from climax are additionally prompted.
Fourth CENTURY [ANIMAL ORGANS]
The chemist Ge Hong depicts a medication produced using the brains of a specific sort of monkey that, blended with herbs, would protract life up to 500 years.
Thirteenth CENTURY [ANIMAL ORGANS] [POWDERED METALS]
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In The Cure of Old Age, the minister and logician Roger Bacon prescribes drinking wine and powders made of gold, pearl, coral and bone from a stag's heart. He likewise exhorted eating snakes.
1489 [BLOOD]
Rationalist Marsilio Ficino recommends the elderly drink the blood of young fellows to revive themselves. A couple of years after the fact, Pope Innocent VIII as far as anyone knows attempted it. He kicked the bucket not long after.
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Luigi Cornaro starts an arrangement on the most proficient method to carry on with a long life. He underlines balance in all things. The work is colossally well known and is converted into numerous dialects.
Sixteenth CENTURY [POWDERED METALS]
To save her childhood, Diane de Poitiers, special lady to Henry II of France and 20 years his senior, drinks a blend including gold chloride and diethyl ether.
1623 [BATHS]
Sir Francis Bacon places that those seeking after a long life ought to preserve the soul and repair harm rapidly. To accomplish those closures he suggests opium and showers.
1638
Tobias Whitaker, later doctor to King Charles II of England, promoters wine as having a part in developing life. Whitaker likely passes on in his 60s.
1667 [BLOOD]
French specialist Jean-Baptiste Denis plays out the main creature human blood transfusion. The human patient recouped subsequently.
1740
George Cheyne, the spearheading specialist who best in class vegetarianism, recommends that the individuals who drink just water from a youthful age could live to be 100.
1796 [VIRGINS]
The German doctor Christoph Hufeland prescribes lying beside young ladies - not for sex, but rather to rest in the closeness of youth. This was regular in different nations.
1889 [BLOOD] [TESTICLES] [ANIMAL ORGANS]
At age 72, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, a physiologist and neurologist, infuses himself for three weeks with a watery concentrate of puppy and guinea-pig testicles, testicular blood and fundamental liquid.
1897
The Swiss doctor Maximilian Bircher-Benner says crude nourishment, which he named "daylight sustenance," is the way to dragging out life. He later gets to be distinctly known as the maker of muesli.
Around 1901
Future Russian Nobel laureate Élie Metchnikoff recommends that maturing might be countered with a lactic-corrosive rich eating routine that incorporates the consistent utilization of sharp drain as an approach to repopulate the digestion tracts with great microscopic organisms.
1920 [TESTICLES]
Eugen Steinach explores different avenues regarding a famous method that includes an incomplete vasectomy. Among his patients were W.B. Yeats and Sigmund Freud. The last trusted it may moderate his jaw growth. It didn't.
1920 [TESTICLES] [ANIMAL ORGANS]
Serge Voronoff, a Russian émigré to France, advances transplanting testicular organs from chimpanzees and monkeys into men as an approach to reestablish young force. Before the finish of 1926, Voronoff would assert a thousand unions.
1921 [POWDERED METALS]
Dr. Charles G. Davis expounds on radium as a ponder medicate that "vivifies the living cell" and can lighten illnesses of maturity.
1920S [TESTICLES] [ANIMAL ORGANS]
John Brinkley, a radio evangelist and quack in Kansas, transplants testicular organs from goats into people. His radio and restorative licenses were repudiated in 1930.
1930 [BLOOD]
English daily papers report that a man named Giocondo Protti effectively restored the elderly by performing blood transfusions from youthful donors.SOURCES INCLUDE: GERALD J. GRUMAN, A HISTORY OF IDEAS ABOUT THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE; DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK, MORTAL COIL: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER; CAROLE HABER, LIFE EXTENSION AND HISTORY: THE CONTINUAL SEARCH FOR THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH; AND PRIMARY SOURCES
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