Death Defeated: The Psychic Secret of How to Keep Young

About this book

How long could a person live by altering food, habits, thought and surroundings? J. M. Peebles sets an audacious question beside examples from history and the advice of his own spiritualist generation.

The book ranges across vegetarian diet, hygiene, relationships, exercise, sunlight and the supposed effects of psychic influences on health. Much of its medical reasoning is dated or unsupported. As a historical curiosity, it reveals how the dream of longevity drew together practical reforms and speculative beliefs, long before the modern language of wellness existed.