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...amused to read in your excellent article on Dr. George Dock, in the April 24 issue: "Nobody was sure who Tom Parr was." Teetotaling Urologist Elmer Belt, who "went searching through his medical books in the systematic way that Dr. Dock would appreciate," should have known that Dr. Dock undoubtedly was referring to that famous GRAND OLD PARR SCOTCH WHISKY named after "Thomas Parr, born A.D. 1483 and interred at Westminster Abbey A.D. 1635 aged 152 years...
...Thomas Parr, a Shropshire lad, who lived, by his own unauthenticated and undocumented account, almost 153 years, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and of Dr. William Harvey. The Anatomical Examination to which TIME refers was Harvey's report of an autopsy performed upon Parr by order of the King, Charles I ... Many books of general reference mention Parr. His outstanding honor in comtemporary literature is his appearance on page one of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
Last year, when he was able to attend the ninth George Dock lecture, Dr. Dock, then a mere 89, told his colleagues: "I would like to live as long as Tom Parr...
Nobody was sure who Tom Parr was, but Los Angeles Urologist Elmer Belt went searching through his medical books in the systematic way that Dr. Dock would appreciate. Finally, buried deep in a volume of The Works of William Harvey (discoverer of the circulatory system), Dr. Belt found a four-page chapter titled: Anatomical Examination Of The Body Of Thomas Parr. It began: "Thomas Parr, a poor countryman, born near Winnington, in the County of Salop [England] died on the 14th of November in the Year of Grace 1635, after having lived 152 years and nine months and survived nine...