While as a secret to prolonging life it sounds just a little too fanciful to ever be taken seriously, I have the feeling that some people, names not to be named, in fact take Mr Cohausen’s “discovery” very seriously:
Johann Heinrich Cohausen, an 18th-century physician, wrote a treatise on the prolongation of life, entitled Hermippus redivivus. [...]
Scientific hoaxes the key to a wealthy life, not a long life
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 31 October, 2008 to the comment subset
