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dishonourableaccount t1_iqnfp4z wrote

Reply to comment by Devadander in TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism. by mfairview

You made a typo, the wikipedia entry says 29 March, 1561 – 25 February, 1636.

That’s 74 years, not 114.

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Alphal66 t1_iqp4ctz wrote

thats pretty long for that era

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dishonourableaccount t1_iqp5dhu wrote

114 would be for sure, but it's a misconception that people died much earlier in pre-modern times. Assuming you made it past the much higher chance of infant mortality and childhood diseases, odds are you could make it to 70 years old just like nowadays.

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Swordidaffair t1_iqs6lku wrote

Thank you, silly how the idea that people only lived til like 18 spread.

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