Canstatt, C.. De ziekten van den ouderdom en derzelver genezing (1842)

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ii, 298, ii, 279, ii, 190pp. with contemp. handwritten index. orig. halfcloth. spine gilt. lett. A very good copy.

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Full title: De ziekten van den ouderdom en derzelver genezing. Uit het hoogduitsch Geriatrics in Dutch in 1842.

“3 volumes in 1. A very early book on geriatrics published in the Netherlands. Freeman Aging its history and literature p. 45 :”” Canstatt in Germany published a work on geriatrics that was described as the best that ever had been written on the subject. It was a thorough aggregation of all of the facts logically considered that could contribute to the knowledge of old age. He tehorized that death of individual cells represented general molecular death of individual cells reperesented general molecular death that could not be replaced.””.”