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Older people - Health and hygiene

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  • Winter: an old man warming his hands before a brazier. Wax sculpture.
  • An old man in a wheelchair is fed by three boys; around him a family goes about its business. Etching by F. Vasconi after P.L. Ghezzi, 1719.
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Catalogue

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    The thirty vital years : the positive experience of ageing : what every person over 50 wants to know, what every person under 50 needs to know / Francis Macnab.

    Macnab, Francis A. | Date: 1994
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    [Health and comfort in old age : and the safety of immediate and entire discontinuance of spirit drinking described and exemplified; being the substance of a speech].

    Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836. | Date: [1833]
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    Our aged poor : a plea for Gillespie's Hospital : being a lecture delivered at a conversazione of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, on 21st April 1865 / by by James D. Gillespie, M.D.

    Gillespie, James Donaldson. | Date: 1865
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    Healthy living : maintaining a healthy body and mind / Age UK.

    | Date: 2012
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    Coping with old age / Pat Blair; illustrated by Shaun Williams.

    Blair, Pat | Date: 1988
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