Old age; the results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years : including seventy-four centenarians.

George Murray Humphry

Date:: 1889

Credit: Old age; the results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years : including seventy-four centenarians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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$days (Za?ice<, June, 1885). ^^ Operation for Tu7nour of Womb. —1 case at 53. Herniotomy.—1 case; death, 3 days later. Dislocation of Shoidder.—3 cases, two at 70 and 79. Fracture: Neck of Femur.—6 cases ; one 4 years ago, one 3 years ago, bedridden since; four at 70, 81, 81, and 77 with recovery \ Thigh.—3 cases; two at 40 and 74, one 9 months ago (Lancet, April, 1884). Arm.—5 cases, at 6, 60, 78, 80, 70, with quick recovery. Forearm.—2 cases; at 84, and 82, with firm union in 25 days. Wrist.—1 case; in one wrist at 60 and in the other at 78. Rihs.—5 cases; three at 25, 60 and 81. Patella.—1 case at 25. Hi]).—1 case at 57, on crutches since. Both Legs.—1 case at 78. Com'pound Frac- ture of Leg.—1 case 10 years ago, no lameness. Ijongevity in Family.—Taking as a standard of a long-lived family one in which of the near relations (grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, and subject of inquiry), 4 attained the age of 70, or 3 the age of 80, we have at least 135 cases. Five families were returned as short-lived. Relationship between Parents or Grandparents.—134 re- turns. ISTone, 139. Parents, first cousins, 1. Parents, second cousins, 1. Age of Father at Birth of Subject of Inquiry.—70 returns; average, rather over 33|^ years of age. Age of Mother at Birth of Subject of Inquiry.—70 returns; average, about 29|^ years. Only those cases are included in which the ages of both the father and mother are returned. Diseases in Family.—Cancer (malignant growths). — 30 1 In this, and other cases, where recovery is mentioned, it is stated in the return to have taken place; but it is not necessarily to be inferred that recovery did not take place in the instances in which mention of it is omitted. 13—2$