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GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging

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1469De officiis. Add: Paradoxa Stoicorum; Laelius, sive de amicitia; Cato maior, sive de senectute.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (-106 – -43)
1489Gerontocomia.
ZERBI, Gabriele (1445 – 1505)
1558Trattato de la vita sobria.
CORNARO, Alvise (Luigi) (1467 – 1566)
1590Libellus Rogerii Baconi Angli doctissimi mathematici et medici, De retardandis senectutis accidentibus et de sensibus conservandis.... opera Johannis Williams Oxoniensis.
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292) WILLIAMS, John ( – 1613)
1724Medicina gerocomica; or the Galenic art of preserving old men’s healths.
FLOYER, Sir John (1649 – 1734)
FLOYER, Sir John (1649 – 1734)
1744M. T. Cicero's Cato major, or his course of old-age: with explanatory notes.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
LOGAN, James (1674 – 1751)
LOGAN, James (1674 – 1751) CICERO, Marcus Tullius (-106 – -43)
1768Prodromo di un opera da imprimersi sopra le riproduzione animali.
SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)
SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)
1807The code of health and longevity; or, a concise view of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. 4 vols.
SINCLAIR, Sir John (1754 – 1835)
SINCLAIR, Sir John (1754 – 1835)
1817An essay on the disorders of old age, and on the means of prolonging life.
CARLISLE, Sir Anthony (1868 – 1840)
1825On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies.
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
1839Die Krankheiten des höhren Alters und ihre Heilung. 2 vols.
CANSTATT, Carl Friedrich (1807 – 1850)
1849A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis.
DAY, George Edward (1815 – 1872)
1860On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.
MAKEHAM, William Matthews (1826 – 1891)
1867Leçons sur les maladies des vieillards et les maladies chroniques.
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
1889Old age: The results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years, including seventy-four centenarians.
HUMPHRY, Sir George Murray (1820 – 1896)
HUMPHRY, Sir George Murray (1820 – 1896)
1889The action of natural selection in producing old age, decay, and death. In Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems by August Weismann; authorized translation edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schönland and Arthur E. Shipley, Chapter 1, "The duration of life," page 23.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WEISMANN, August Friedrich Leopold (1834 – 1914)
WEISMANN, August Friedrich Leopold (1834 – 1914)
1908The problem of age, growth and death.
MINOT, Charles Sedgwick (1852 – 1914)
MINOT, Charles Sedgwick (1852 – 1914)
1914Geriatrics: The diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations.
NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)
NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)
1923The chemical basis of growth and senescence.
ROBERTSON, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 – 1930)
ROBERTSON, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 – 1930)
1928De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.
WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292) LITTLE, A. G. (1863 – 1945)
1934Prolonging the life span.
MCCAY, Clive Maine (1898 – 1967) CROWELL, Mary F.
1935The care of the aged, the dying and the dead.
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
1951A classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.
SHOCK, Nathan Wetherill (1906 – 1989)
1961The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains.
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024) MOORHEAD, Paul Sidney (1924 – )
1965Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.
LÜTH, Paul Egon Heinrich (1921 – 1986)
1970George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
SACHER, George A. (1917 – 1981) FINCH, Caleb Ellicott (1939 – )
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
1978A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.
GALL, Joseph Grafton (1928 – )
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
1979Aging: Its history and literature.
FREEMAN, Joseph T.
FREEMAN, Joseph T.
1985Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – ) GRIEDER, Carolyn Widney (1961 – )
1995Profiles in gerontology: A biographical dictionary
ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – )
ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – ) ACHENBAUM, W. Andrew (1947 – )
1995Crossing frontiers: Gerontology emerges as a science.
ACHENBAUM, W. Andrew (1947 – )
2001Rising life expectancy: A global history.
RILEY, James C. (1943 – )
2003A history of ideas about the prolongation of life: The evolution of prolongevity hypotheses to 1800.
GRUMAN, Gerald Joseph (1926 – 2007)
2004Alter und Krankheit in der Frühen Neuzeit. Der ärztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase.
SCHÄFER, Daniel (1964 – )
2006Sex, aging, & death in a medieval medical compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, its texts, language and scribe. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.
TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
2013The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.
ABEL, Emily K. (1942 – )