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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 6, 2018

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

Publication Details

Cambridge, England: Macmillan and Bowes, 1889 CE.

Analysis, illustrated with Woodburytype photographs, of data collected by the "Collective Investigation Committee" of the British Medical Association. Note that in the 1880s attaining the age of 80 was considered worth documenting. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Entry Number#10618
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/12811
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLold-age-the-results-of-information-received-respecting-nearly-nine-hundred-persons-who-had-attained-the-age-of-eighty-years-including-seventyfour-centenarians

Geographic Context

Publication place: Cambridge, England