Masters of old age
Subtitle: the value of longevity illustrated by practical examples
By: by Nicholas Smith
Series: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine--Medical Heritage Library digitization project
Publisher: Young churchman co.
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Milwaukee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Longevity
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Table of contents: title: I. "Staying in harness"; title: II. Age in relation to mental activity; title: III. Can we spare the old men?; title: IV. Two views of old age; title: V. Growing old and keeping young; title: VI. Old at fifty-young at eighty; title: VII. Growing old Cheerfully; title: VIII. Never too old to learn; title: IX. The last years of the "grand old man"; title: X. Intellectual work and longevity; title: XI. Ought we never to be sick?; title: XII. Three distinguished engineers; title: XIII. Half a century's service in one church; title: XIV. Lives that rebuke the dead line dictum; title: XV. When is a man too old?; title: XVI. A group of young old men; title: XVII. Bryant's habits of life; title: XVIII. Some remarkable centenarians; title: XIX. The case of Cornado; title: XX. Women centenarians; title: XXI. "At evening time it shall be light"; title: XXII. "Keep on the sunny side of the street"; title: XXIII. The art of living; title: XXIV. General Grant's last and greatest victory; title: XXV. Some characteristics of longevity; title: XXVI. Conditions for longevity; title: XXVII. Conserving the engeries of elderly people; title: XXVIII. How to live the smiple life; title: XXIX. The beatitude of old age; title: XXX. Old age and the king of terrors; title: XXXI. Addendum.