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A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago, and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica, and other neuralgic affections and certain forms of paralysis / By George E. Day.

Geriatrics.

Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations / by I.L. Nascher.

Clinical lectures on senile and chronic diseases / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by William S. Tuke.

M0013789: Smith: <i>King Solomon's Portrait of Old Age</i>, 1666: title page.

British journal of geriatric practice.

H-3 (procaine hydrochloride) therapy in aging institutionalized patients : an interim report / Joseph O. Smigel [and others].

Practical management of the elderly / W. Ferguson Anderson.

Geriatrics : a treatise on the prevention and treatment of diseases of old age and the care of the aged / by Malford W. Thewlis ; with introductions by A. Jacobi and I.L. Nascher.

Ioannis Bernhardi de Fischer, Med. Doct. ... De senio, eiusque gradibus et morbis, nec non de eiusdem acquisitione, tractatus, de novo revisus et abundanter auctus : accesserunt praeterea desiderati Franc. Ranchini, et Floyeri gerocomicarum, amplae sciagraphiae, nec non Welstedii et Dethardingii, conspirante quasi ad longaeuitatem fato, eodem MDCCXXIV. anno, cum Floyeri Geroc. edita commenta, tribus verbis indigitata.

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Geriatrics

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British journal of geriatric practice.

H-3 (procaine hydrochloride) therapy in aging institutionalized patients : an interim report / Joseph O. Smigel [and others].

Practical management of the elderly / W. Ferguson Anderson.

Geriatrics : a treatise on the prevention and treatment of diseases of old age and the care of the aged / by Malford W. Thewlis ; with introductions by A. Jacobi and I.L. Nascher.

Geriatrics

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British journal of geriatric practice.

H-3 (procaine hydrochloride) therapy in aging institutionalized patients : an interim report / Joseph O. Smigel [and others].

Practical management of the elderly / W. Ferguson Anderson.

Geriatrics : a treatise on the prevention and treatment of diseases of old age and the care of the aged / by Malford W. Thewlis ; with introductions by A. Jacobi and I.L. Nascher.

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