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‘That senescence itself is an illness’: A transitional medical concept of age and ageing in the eighteenth century

Daniel Schäfer

Medical History · 2002 · 18 citations · 2 references

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The ‘Humidum Radicale’ in Thirteenth-Century Medicine

Michael McVaugh · Traditio · 1974 · 35 citations

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Old Age, Fever, and the Lamp Metaphor

Peter H. Niebyl · Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences · 1971 · 21 citations

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