among physicians, a critical year in a person's life, in which he is supposed to stand in great danger of death.

According to some, every seventh year is a climacteric; but others allow only those years produced by multiplying 7 by the odd number 3, 5, 7, and 9, to be climacterical. These years, they say, bring with them some remarkable change with respect to health, life, or fortune; the grand climacteric is the sixty-third year; but some, making two, add to this the eighty-first; the other remarkable climacterics are the seventh, twenty-first, thirty-fifth, forty-ninth, and fifty-sixth.