Old Age: The Results of Information Received Respecting Nearly Nine Hundred Persons Who Had Attained the Age of Eighty Years, Including Seventy-Four Centenarians (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Old Age: The Results of Information Received Respecting Nearly Nine Hundred Persons Who Had Attained the Age of Eighty Years, Including Seventy-Four Centenarians

Sleep - Good, bad, moderate. No. Of hours Hour Of going to bed Of risin'g any present maladies. - Their nature and duration. State any other points in the general condition, habits, etc., worthy of mention.

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Excerpt from Old Age: The Results of Information Received Respecting Nearly Nine Hundred Persons Who Had Attained the Age of Eighty Years, Including Seventy-Four Centenarians

In my Presidential Address at the Cambridge Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1880 I drew attention to the advantages that might be derived by utilizing the organisation of that great body, then numbering more than eight thousand members (it now numbers about thirteen thousand), for the purpose of collecting information upon various subjects of medical interest. A "Collective Investigation Committee" was consequently formed, and carefully-considered Circulars of Inquiry upon several subjects were issued.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.