Some Medical Aspects of Old Age
by Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston
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About this eBook
- Author
- Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944
- Title
- Some Medical Aspects of Old Age Being the Linacre lecture, 1922, St. John's college, Cambridge
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RC: Medicine: Internal medicine
- Subject
- Geriatrics
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57215
- Release Date
- May 26, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SOME MEDICAL ASPECTS OF OLD AGE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.I INTRODUCTION
- 6.II DURATION OF LIFE
- 7.III ONSET OF OLD AGE
- 8.IV FACTORS INFLUENCING LONGEVITY — Heredity — Environment — Functional Activity — Personal Habits
- 9.V THE CAUSES OF SENESCENCE AND GENERAL ATROPHY: LIMITED VITALITY OF CELLS—INFLUENCE OF THE ENDOCRINE GLANDS—METCHNIKOFF’S PATHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION SENESCENCE AND CARCINOMA — Limited Vitality of the Cells — Relation of the Endocrine Glands to Senescence — Metchnikoff’s Pathological Explanation — Old Age of Cells and Carcinoma
- 10.VI NORMAL STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN OLD AGE
- 11.VII PHYSIOLOGY OF OLD AGE
- 12.VIII THE DESCRIPTION OF OLD AGE IN THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF ECCLESIASTES
- 13.IX DISTINCTION BETWEEN HEALTHY AND MORBID OLD AGE
- 14.X DISEASES IN AND OF OLD AGE
- 15.FOOTNOTES
- 16.INDEX
- 17.Untitled
- 18.Transcriber’s Notes
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