Some Medical Aspects of Old Age Being the Linacre lecture, 1922, St. John's college, Cambridge

The average length of life varies in different countries; a temperate or moderately cold climate is conducive to a slower development of maturity and so to a longer life than tr...

In old animals it is natural for the instinct of self-preservation to fade, as is exemplified in the day-flies which in their larval stage are well endowed with this property, a...

A large proportion of the centenarians and persons over 80 years of age collected by Sir George Humphry obeyed the adage early to rise and early to bed, and I well remember that...

At the present time it would be unwise to express a dogmatic opinion about the relation of the endocrine glands to normal old age. That old age is due to endocrine insufficiency...

_The liver_ diminishes in size and weight by about one half; atrophy of considerable areas may expose the vessels and ducts on the surface of the organ. Boyd’s tables show a dif...

More modern estimates of the duration of human life under ideal conditions of protection against infection have been to the same effect, thus conforming to the estimate of Corna...

The physiological involution of the mind and accompanying organic changes in the brain gradually shade off into senile dementia. A regression to the mental state of childhood, w...

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[132] On analysis of the Registrar-General’s returns for England and Wales (1901–1909) C. Singer (_Quart. Journ. Med._, Oxford, 1911–12, v. 33), found that the incidence curves...

Longevity, alcohol influencing, 57 among professional men, 50, 53 auto- and hetero-suggestion influencing, 48, 49 “cell-memory” in relation to, 35 climatic conditions influencin...