Senescence, the Last Half of Life

The turn of the tide of life--Relative amount and importance of work accomplished before and after forty--The sexual life at the turn of the tide in man and woman--Osler’s views...

The age of plants and animals--The Old Stone Age--Treatment of old age among existing savage tribes--The views of Frazer--The ancient Hebrews and the Old Testament--The Greeks (...

Harriet E. Paine--Amelia E. Barr--Mortimer Collins--Col. Nicholas Smith--Byron C. Utecht--J. L. Smith--Sanford Bennett--G. E. D. Diamond--Cardinal Gibbons--John Burroughs--Rollo...

from eggs, clamoring to get out when about as mature as our youth are at seventeen, so that there are no children in our sense. They are grown-ups, according to our standard, at...

I--Numbers of old people increasing in all known lands where data are available--Actuarial and other mortality tables--Expectation of life and death-rate at different ages--Long...

The self-knowledge that doctors give--Insidious approach of many diseases--Medical views of the old age of body and mind (senile dementia)--Charcot--G. M. Humphry--Sir James Cri...

Weismann’s immortality of the germ plasm and his denial of the inheritance of acquired qualities--The truth and limitations of his views--The theories of Hering and Simon--Metch...

Their value suggestive but only for a class--(1) Effects of the first realization of the approach of old age--(2) To what do you ascribe your long life?--(3) How do you keep wel...

In a few cases the first realization that one is getting old springs upon the soul, as if from ambush, on some trivial occasion and clings like an obsession that remits only to...

The early decades of age--The deadline of seventy--The patheticism of the old--The attitude of physicians toward them--Fluctuations of youth--Erotic decline--Alternations in the...

a deep sentiment of inner conviction. But age lays more stress upon the pragmatic sanction of working well and can better understand even Loyola and Machiavelli. Thus it came th...

The attitude of infancy and youth toward death as recapitulating that of the race--Suicide--The death-wish--Necrophilism--The Black Death--Depopulation by the next war--The evol...