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  • 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
  • John Smith, King Solomon's Portrait of Old Age, title page.
  • George Cadbury, from Stead, H.F. , How Old Age ...
  • A bearded old man; representing old age. Stipple engraving, 19th century.
  • A bearded old man; representing old age. Stipple engraving, 19th century.
  • Emily Samson, Old age in the New World
  • 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
  • Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations / by I.L. Nascher.
  • A sick old man with the woes of old age. Engraving by B. Lépicié, 1745, after Etienne Jeaurat.
  • King George III in old age, seated in an armchair. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1820.
  • Ecclesiastes, chapter XII, on old age. From a family Bible, bound with the Book of Common Prayer, 1607.
  • Horse's teeth: showing development from six years old to extreme old age: ten views with five detailed images of youthful teeth. Coloured engraving attributed to T. Cowan after a drawing attributed to B. Herring, ca. 1860.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • The arts of Minerva reduce the power of Time to end life, but death from old age or from plague still exists. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • 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 tree of humane life, or, the bloud of the grape. Proving the possibilitie of maintaining humane life from infancy to extreame old age without any sicknesse by the use of wine / [Tobias Whitaker].
  • 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!.