The Prevention of Senility: And A Sanitary OutlookMacmillan, 1905 - 141 páginas |
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able activity Allchin amongst arm centres atrophy attained become brain brought bye-laws carbonic acid cause cells cent centenarians Charles Booth childhood consumption cottages death death-rate degeneration disease Districts of England doubt dwellings England and Wales environment evolution fifty fifty-five forty forty-five grey matter hand and arm heredity higher elements hope houses human hundred hygiene improving increased industries influence intellectual class labourers land large intestine Letchworth London macrophags Maudsley means ment mental Metchnikoff mortality natural nerve centres nutrition old age organs overcrowding persons phagocytes phthisis poisonous poor population PREVENTION OF SENILITY preventive medicine Professor prolong quest reach reduced regards rural districts sanatorial treatment Sanitary Inspector SANITARY OUTLOOK senile decay senile dementia serum specific gravity sterilisation suburbs superfluities tion tissues tubercle bacillus tuberculosis urban districts vigour Walter Long whole Wilfred Blunt youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 67 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 37 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 137 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves ; And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves.
Página 62 - By being .old when i was young, I find myself young now I am old. I led a sober, studious, but not a lazy or sedentary life. My diet was sparing, though delicate ; my liquors the best wines of...
Página 36 - And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Página 67 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Página 36 - the best antidote against senile decay is an active interest in human affairs, and those keep young longest who love most.
Página 68 - This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Página 62 - I never exceeded a pint at any meal, except in cold weather, when I allowed myself a third more. I rode or walked every day, except in rainy weather, when I exercised for a couple of hours.
Página 32 - ... localized in the frontal lobes. The moral sense and religious emotions have probably here the substrata necessary for their manifestation, and these, although influential in some degree throughout life, evolve most munificently last of all. The fruit is mellowest when it is ready to fall, and the old man, free from canker or blight, sometimes displays new sweetness and magnanimity when his course is all but run.