Expanded from the Linacre Lecture he gave at St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1922, Sir Humphry Rolleston’s survey ranges over ancient and modern ideas about old age. He considers the duration of life, when old age begins, factors that influence longevity, the normal changes in body and mind, and famous long-lived people, deliberately leaving treatment aside.
A readable historical overview of early geriatric thought; its medicine is that of 1922. Download the free EPUB.