An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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CANSTATT, Carl Friedrich

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  • 1605.1

Die Krankheiten des höhren Alters und ihre Heilung. 2 vols.

Erlangen: Ferdinand Enke, 1839.

Canstatt’s book is one of the most important in the history of gerontology, summarizing all previous work on the subject. Suffering from tuberculosis, Canstatt himself only lived to the age of 43. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging