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  • Portrait of Sir John Herschel in old age.
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • King George III in old age, seated in an armchair. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1820.
  • Emily Samson, Old age in the New World
  • Emily D. Samson, Old Age in the New World
  • Emily D. Samson, Old Age in the New World
  • Emily D. Samson, Old Age in the New World
  • Emily D. Samson, Old Age in the New World
  • Emily D. Samson, Old Age in the New World
  • Emily D. Samson, Old Age in the New World
  • Ono no Komachi, a poetess, shown in youth (wearing an elaborate robe, and holding a fan) and in old age. Colour woodcut by Toyokuni II, 1830.
  • People engaged in pleasures (dancing, drinking, gaming, flirting) to counteract the pains of illness and old age. Line engraving attributed to O. van Veen (Vaenius).
  • Mr. J. Wharton : when only 13 years of age, he weighed eighteen stone, and continued to increase in weight a stone each year, till he was thirty years old ... he died November, 1810, at Appleby Carside, Lincoln, at the age of 34.
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world! Seventeen months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds.
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world, fourteen months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds!.
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world, fourteen months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds!.
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : universally pronounced the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world! Twelve months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds.
  • Hermippus redivivus, or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including, a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed; supported by numerous authorities. The whole interspersed with a great variety of remarkable, and well-attested relations / [Anon].
  • Plate 10. The developmental changes in human teeth with age. Several temporary (deciduous) canine teeth (Fig. 1), temporary molars (Fig. 2), the formation of permanent teeth (Figs. 3 and 4), changes that take place during different periods of growth (Fig. 5), cross-section of a jaw of a six-year-old child (A) and an eight to nine-year-old child (B), the appearance of the canine and second permanent molars (C), part of an adult jaw (D), the upper jaw of a foetus (Fig. 6).
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tom Thumb : the oldest midget in the world : the world's wonder : age 66 years, stands 39 ins. high.
  • An elderly man with a skull and an hourglass, representing the misery of old age. Engraving by C.G. Schultze, 1770, after C.-F. Hutin.