Some Medical Aspects of Old Age
- Subtitle
- Being the Linacre lecture, 1922, St. John's college, Cambridge
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1. SOME MEDICAL ASPECTS OF OLD AGE2. PREFACE3. ILLUSTRATIONS4. I INTRODUCTION5. II DURATION OF LIFE6. III ONSET OF OLD AGE7. IV FACTORS INFLUENCING LONGEVITY8. V THE CAUSES OF SENESCENCE AND GENERAL ATROPHY: LIMITED VITALITY OF CELLS—INFLUENCE OF THE ENDOCRINE GLANDS—METCHNIKOFF’S PATHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION SENESCENCE AND CARCINOMA9. VI NORMAL STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN OLD AGE10. VII PHYSIOLOGY OF OLD AGE11. VIII THE DESCRIPTION OF OLD AGE IN THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF ECCLESIASTES12. IX DISTINCTION BETWEEN HEALTHY AND MORBID OLD AGE13. X DISEASES IN AND OF OLD AGE14. INDEX