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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.

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

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

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.

A man and a woman in a vineyard in autumn; representing the benefits of the fiftieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.

Religion and aging in the Indian tradition / Shrinivas Tilak ; foreword by Katherine K. Young.

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

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

A man and a woman in a vineyard in autumn; representing the benefits of the fiftieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.

Religion and aging in the Indian tradition / Shrinivas Tilak ; foreword by Katherine K. Young.