Biological processes in a human body coupled to increasing age

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Some elderly patients wistfully reminisce about their younger days. Coloured lithograph by A. de Valmont.

Flor-ador food : suitable for the seven ages of man / Florador Food Company.

Progression of a man through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Engraving, c. 1794.

A procession of allegorical figures representing honest and dishonest ways of becoming rich, engraving by Philipp Galle after Heemskerck, 1563.  

Sunlight soap : why does a woman look old sooner than a man? / [Lever Brothers Ltd.]

The ages of man represented in a step scheme. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.

A bearded old man; representing old age. Stipple engraving, 19th century.

These 2 women are the same age / Kellogg Company of Canada.

A man sits and paints a picture of the exiled Adam and Eve; his wife suckles a baby; representing the thirtieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.

Head of an old woman. Stipple engraving.

An old woman, sitting in the nude. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.

Cherubs and demons hold up pictures in front of a youth; a woman embroiders; representing the age of twenty. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16---.

Cheating time : science, sex and ageing / Roger Gosden.

Ageing research in Europe : demographic, social and behavioural aspects / written by Emily M. Agree and George C. Myers.

The melatonin miracle : nature's age-reversing, disease-fighting, sex-enhancing hormone / Walter Pierpaoli and William Regelson, with Carol Colman.

Age changes in the neuromuscular system / E. Gutmann and V. Hanzlíková.

Source book on ageing : information materials for the international year of older persons.

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Aging

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Cheating time : science, sex and ageing / Roger Gosden.

Ageing research in Europe : demographic, social and behavioural aspects / written by Emily M. Agree and George C. Myers.

The melatonin miracle : nature's age-reversing, disease-fighting, sex-enhancing hormone / Walter Pierpaoli and William Regelson, with Carol Colman.

Age changes in the neuromuscular system / E. Gutmann and V. Hanzlíková.

Source book on ageing : information materials for the international year of older persons.

Aging

Images from the collections

Images referencing Aging

Works from the collections

Cheating time : science, sex and ageing / Roger Gosden.

Ageing research in Europe : demographic, social and behavioural aspects / written by Emily M. Agree and George C. Myers.

The melatonin miracle : nature's age-reversing, disease-fighting, sex-enhancing hormone / Walter Pierpaoli and William Regelson, with Carol Colman.

Age changes in the neuromuscular system / E. Gutmann and V. Hanzlíková.

Source book on ageing : information materials for the international year of older persons.

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