Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . Group of Four Nerve Cells from the First CervicalGanglion of a Man Dying of Old Age at Ninety-twoYears. Specimen preserved with osmic acid. C, C, twocells still intact, but loaded with pigment granules; c,c, two cells which have disintegrated. X500 diams.(From Minots Problems of Age, Growth and P. Putnams Sons, New York and London.). Group of Five Nerve Cells from theFirst Cervical Ganglion of a Child atBirth. Specimen preserved with osmi
Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . Group of Four Nerve Cells from the First CervicalGanglion of a Man Dying of Old Age at Ninety-twoYears. Specimen preserved with osmic acid. C, C, twocells still intact, but loaded with pigment granules; c,c, two cells which have disintegrated. X500 diams.(From Minots Problems of Age, Growth and P. Putnams Sons, New York and London.). Group of Five Nerve Cells from theFirst Cervical Ganglion of a Child atBirth. Specimen preserved with osmicacid. X500 diams. (From MinotsProblems of Age, Growth, and P. Putnams Sons, New York andLondon.) GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 53 senile cases has been established nor are investigators agreedupon the meaning of deviations from the usual findings in theaged. The closest approximation of a standard of normalblood pressure in the aged is the age plus ioo in The facegives us little information in senile cases. There is the expres-sionless face of senile dementia and of paralysis agitans, thelatter disease being readily distinguished from the former bythe tremor and brighter mentality. There may be jaundiceindicating biliary obstruction or cancer; in apoplexy the faceis puffed and congested; in chronic nephritis puffy and muddyor pasty looking; it is flushed in hyperemia and fevers, palein anemia, sallow in various cachexias; but these facial indica-tions have only a secondary
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