Excerpt from Life Shortening Habits and Rejuvenation: I. The Ten Chief Life Shortening Habits, II. The Rapid Ageing of Women, III. Rejuvenation After performing my daily duties as a medical officer it was here that I retired for the evenings and nights. It was a quiet place, an isle of silence in the midst of a noisy city, and just the place for contemplation and literary work And very silent neighbors I had, indeed! Below me in the deep vaults of the convent lay, in sarcophagi of silver and copper, the bodies of all the emperors, empresses, archdukes, and archduchesses of the im perial and royal house of austria-hungary who had died in the preceding four centuries, includ ing that of the son of the great Napoleon, from his union with the Austrian princess, Maria Louisa. Looking out of my Window into the courtyard, I faced a skull bearing an imperial crown of iron which formed the top of the mausoleum Of the great Empress Maria Theresa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.