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Excerpt from Geriatrics: A Treatise on Senile Conditions, Diseases of Advanced Life, and Care of the Aged Geriatrics includes, not only the treatment of senile diseases, but also the care of the aged, the causes of age ing, and measures for prolonging life. Many of the arteriosclerotic and other senile changes begin about the age of forty-five, and proper attention at this time would prevent their too rapid development. The study of geriatrics should then include persons about fifty: about the time when the senile changes first become manifest. With increasing interest in this subject it is not too much to expect special geriatric hospitals, laboratories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.