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Some Medical Aspects of Old Age

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Some Medical Aspects of Old Age

Humphry Davy, Sir Rolleston

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When does old age truly begin, and what hurries it along? Humphry Rolleston weighs heredity, habit and environment against the wearing-out of the body's own cells. His lectures survey the medicine of aging with a clinician's measured eye. An early landmark in the study of growing old. Consider the science of senescence as an eminent physician saw it.

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25 chapters

  1. 1SOME MEDICAL ASPECTS OF OLD AGE
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5I INTRODUCTION
  6. 6II DURATION OF LIFE
  7. 7III ONSET OF OLD AGE
  8. 8IV FACTORS INFLUENCING LONGEVITY
  9. 9Heredity
  10. 10Environment
  11. 11Functional Activity
  12. 12Personal Habits
  13. 13V THE CAUSES OF SENESCENCE AND GENERAL ATROPHY: LIMITED VITALITY OF CELLS—INFLUENCE OF THE ENDOCRINE GLANDS—METCHNIKOFF’S PATHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION SENESCENCE AND CARCINOMA
  14. 14Limited Vitality of the Cells
  15. 15Relation of the Endocrine Glands to Senescence
  16. 16Metchnikoff’s Pathological Explanation
  17. 17Old Age of Cells and Carcinoma
  18. 18VI NORMAL STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN OLD AGE

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