He lived pretty long as a chemist of that era. People in the older days tended to work with stuff like Benzene as if it were water in labs. The fact that he liv

He lived pretty long as a chemist of that era. People in the older days tended to work with stuff like Benzene as if it were water in labs. The fact that he lived so long despite this, maybe he was onto something? I remember reading that chemists in that era tended to die younger than the general population.