Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The Immortal Spirit

Throughout history, many men and women have sought eternal youth. The Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, even our own Western traditions, it is one of the constants in all of our history.

Countess Elizabeth Bathory, of Hungarian legend, comes to my mind first. A truly exemplary woman, who took her own fate into her hands. She failed because she didn’t test her methods. She believed bathing in the blood of a virgin woman would keep her eternally young.

She lacked a control test. There are several easy experiments one could have set up, and with modern methods and thinking, I have no doubt she’d have been tireless in her research to find a way.

2 comments:

  1. Sadly, Barthory lived in an era before blood types were known. The frequent total transfusions that would have been required to affect a significant change would surely have killed her, and would have merely prolonged her youth by a few decades at most. But there are other methods. - Jett

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  2. this is very interesting


    what are these metohds

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