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  • 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.
  • The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ... : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.
  • The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ... : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.
  • Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French. Of J.A. Salgues.
  • 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.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older gay men it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older gay men it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older gay men it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older gay men it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older gay men it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older gay men it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older gay men it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • 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.
  • The three ages of man: a couple embrace, children play with hoops and toys, and an old couple eat at a table. Engraving by P. Fürst, 1652.
  • Thomas Laugher, known as Old Tommy, aged 111. Engraving, 1819.
  • Thomas Laugher, known as Old Tommy, aged 107. Etching, 1807.