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The Psychological Aspects of Ageing and Senility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Margaret Davies Eysenck
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Perhaps the earliest adumbration of modern interest in problems of old age was Quetelet's important two-volume work on Man and the Development of his Faculties in 1835 (55). In this book appeared for the first time data of a kind since become very familiar: ages when various crimes are committed, when literary masterpieces are written, ages of admission to hospitals for the insane, and so on.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 92 , Issue 386 , January 1946 , pp. 171 - 181
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1946 

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