Subjects: Longevity - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine Search Results

1. Alcohol: its relation to human efficiency and longevity

Author(s):: Fisk, Eugene Lyman, 1867-1931
Publication:: New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1917
Subject(s):: Alcohol Drinking -- adverse effects
Longevity
Healthy Lifestyle

2. Lessons in longevity: paragraphs on home hygiene, and the art of prolonging life

Author(s):: Hamilton, John Brown, 1847-1898, author
Publication:: Washington : William H. Morrison, 1884
Subject(s):: Hygiene
Longevity

3. Libellus de regimine senum et seniorum Arnaldi de Villa Nova

Author(s):: Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311, author
Publication:: [Paris] : [Felix Baligault for Claude Jaumar & Thomas Julian], [approximately June 1500]
Subject(s):: Longevity
Health Behavior
Diet
Hygiene
Aged

4. Long life, and how to reach it

Author(s):: Richardson, Joseph Gibbons, 1836-1886, author
Publication:: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1879
Subject(s):: Hygiene
Longevity

5. Eighty and how to reach it: or plain, every-day care of the great organs of digestion, secretion and circulation

Author(s):: Schenck, J. H. (Joseph Hammitt), 1847-1913 author
Publication:: Philadelphia, Pa. : Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son, [1888]
Subject(s):: Longevity
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Podophyllum peltatum

6. An account of the causes and indications of longevity, and of the state of the body and mind in old age: with observations on the diseases, and their remedies

Author(s):: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813, author
Publication:: New York : Poole & Maclauchlan, printers, 1872
Subject(s):: Longevity
Geriatrics
Aged, 80 and over

7. Longevity and climate: relations of climatic conditions to longevity, history, and religion : relations of climate to national and personal habits : the climate of California and its effects in relation to longevity

Author(s):: Remondino, P. C. (Peter Charles), 1846-1926, author
Publication:: S.F., Cal. : Woodward & Co., printers, [1890?]
Subject(s):: Longevity
Climate
California

8. Normal standard of physiology

Author(s):: Allen, Nathan, 1813-1889, author
Publication:: Lowell : [publisher not identified], 1885
Subject(s):: Physiological Phenomena
Health
Longevity
Heredity

9. Curious marriages and instances of longevity

Author(s):: Daniels, Henry A., author
Publication:: New York : Printed for the author by Lange, Little & Hillman, 1873
Subject(s):: Marriage
Longevity

10. The increase of human life: read before the American Statistical Association

Author(s):: Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884, author
Publication:: Boston : David Clapp & Son, printers, 1872
Subject(s):: Life Expectancy
Longevity

11. An easy way to prolong life: by a little attention to what we eat and drink : containing a chemical analysis : or, an enquiry into the nature and properties of all kinds of food : how far they are wholesome, and agree with the different constitutions : with some directions respecting our way of living : collected from the authorities of some of our ablest physicians

Author(s):: Trusler, John, 1735-1820
Publication:: Printed at Dover : By Samuel Bragg, Jun., for Wm. T. Clap, in Boston, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):: Diet
Exercise
Longevity

12. Extreme old age: the centenarians and nonogenarians of the metropolis, errors of the census, foreign vs. native longevity--Ireland leads the list, the old folk at home, interviews with ninety and nine New Yorkers of ninety years and over, milestones of memory, the revolution, George Washington, Napoleon I, the Rebellion of '98, amid great-great-grandchildren, indifference to hygienic surroundings--wonderful vitality

Publication:: [New York?] : New York Herald, 1882
Subject(s):: Longevity
Aged, 80 and over
New York City

13. What drives health care spending?: Can we know whether population aging is a 'red herring'?

Publication:: Chestnut Hill, MA : Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, c2009
Subject(s):: Health Expenditures -- statistics & numerical data
Health Expenditures -- trends
Longevity
Mortality
Population Dynamics
Terminal Care -- economics
Age Factors
Aging
Budgets
Forecasting
Health Transition
Life Expectancy
Humans
United States

14. Live long, sugar: cheap medicine can protect you from PCP, the killer pneumonia of people with HIV or AIDS

Publication:: Michigan : Dept. of Public Health ; [Washington, D.C.] : National Minority AIDS Council, [19--?]
Subject(s):: Pneumonia, Pneumocystis -- drug therapy
HIV Infections
Longevity
African Americans

15. Vive màs, cariño: medicinas baratas te peuden proteger de PCP la neumonía que mata a las personas con VIH o SIDA

Publication:: Michigan : Dept. of Public Health ; [Washington, D.C.] : National Minority AIDS Council, [19--?]
Subject(s):: Pneumonia, Pneumocystis -- drug therapy
HIV Infections
Longevity
Hispanic Americans

16. Live long, sugar: cheap medicine can protect you from PCP, the killer pneumonia of people with HIV or AIDS

Publication:: Michigan : Dept. of Public Health ; [Washington, D.C.] : National Minority AIDS Council, [19--?]
Subject(s):: Pneumonia, Pneumocystis -- drug therapy
HIV Infections
Longevity
African Americans
Asian Americans

17. Old age: its diseases and its hygiene

Author(s):: Yandell, Lunsford P. (Lunsford Pitts), 1805-1878, author
Publication:: Louisville, Ky. : [publisher not identified], 1878
Subject(s):: Aging
Longevity

18. Connection of occupation with longevity

Author(s):: Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884
Publication:: [United States : s.n., 1857]
Subject(s):: Longevity
Occupations
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York

19. On the relative influence of city and country life, on morality, health, fecundity, longevity and mortality

Author(s):: Hough, John Stockton, 1845-1900, author
Publication:: [Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified], [1874?]
Subject(s):: Urban Population
Rural Population
Fertility
Mortality
Longevity
United States

20. NIH Conference on Gender and Longevity: why do women live longer than men?

Publication:: Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 1987
Subject(s):: Sex Factors
Longevity

21. An old man carving a hoe handle: exercises help to add life to years

Publication:: Lilongwe, Malawi : Ministry of Health, Health Education Section, [19--]
Subject(s):: Quality of Life
Exercise
Longevity
Health Behavior

22. On the injurious effects of mineral poisons in the practice of medicine: comprising an epitome and commentary on the system of Luigi Cornaro for attaining old age, and on the new system of medicine of F.V. Raspail (Every man his own physician), to which the Montyon Prize of 10,000 f. was lately adjudged at Paris, embracing all the details necessary for person to give this system a trial &c. &c

Author(s):: Prater, Horatio.
Publication:: London : Sherwood and Co., 1846
Subject(s):: Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Inorganic Chemicals -- adverse effects
Health Behavior
Longevity
Phytotherapy
Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Raspail, F.-V. (François-Vincent), 1794-1878.

23. How to live longer and why we do not live longer

Author(s):: Hayes, J. R. (Joshua R.), author
Publication:: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1897
Subject(s):: Longevity
Health Behavior

24. Long life and how to attain it

Author(s):: Jenner, Andrew J. B., author
Publication:: Detroit : John F. Eby & Co., book and job printers, 1886
Subject(s):: Longevity
Health Behavior

25. Six lectures on the functions of the lungs: and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to an hundred years

Author(s):: Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Publication:: New York : S.S. Fitch, 1870
Subject(s):: Lung
Lung Diseases
Health Behavior
Longevity

26. Hufeland's art of prolonging life

Author(s):: Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1762-1836
Publication:: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1870
Subject(s):: Health
Longevity

27. Sources of longevity: its indications and practical applications : part I, part II

Publication:: [New York : Wm. Wood & Co. ..., 1869]
Subject(s):: Longevity
Insurance, Life

28. An essay on the disorders of old age: and on the means for prolonging human life

Author(s):: Carlisle, Anthony, Sir, 1768-1840
Publication:: Philadelphia : Published by Edward Earle, corner of Fourth & Library streets ; 1819 ; W. Myer, printer, New-Brunswick, [1819]
Subject(s):: Geriatrics
Longevity

29. Means of obtaining a long and healthy life

Author(s):: Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Benjamin Johnson, 1809
Subject(s):: Hygiene
Longevity

30. Six lectures on the uses of the lungs: and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of longevity : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to an hundred years

Author(s):: Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Publication:: New York : H. Carlisle, 1847
Subject(s):: Lung
Lung Diseases
Health Behavior
Longevity

31. Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life: with means of correcting a bad constitution

Author(s):: Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566
Publication:: Philadelphia : Reprinted for the Rev. M. L. Weems, by Parry Hall, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):: Health Behavior
Longevity

32. Longevity: being an account of various persons, who have lived to an extraordinary age, with several curious particulars respecting their lives ; the whole comprising an abridgement of longevity, as far as history extends in every quarter of the world, from the creation to the year 1792 ; authenticated by referential notes from authors of veracity

Author(s):: Hoffman, Christian.
Publication:: New-York : Printed and sold by Jacob S. Mott, no. 7. Vesey-Street, 1798
Subject(s):: Bible
Longevity

33. An epistle to a friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness: and prolonging the life of man to its natural period : being a summary view of inconsiderate and useless habits that derange the system of nature, thereby causing premature old age and death : with some thoughts on the best means of preventing and overcoming disease

Author(s):: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Publication:: Philadelphia : From the press of the late R. Aitken, ... by Jane Aitken, 1803
Subject(s):: Hygiene
Longevity

34. The art of invigorating and prolonging life: by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep &c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ; suaviter in modo, fortiter in re : to which is added, the pleasure of making a will ; finis coronat opus

Author(s):: Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
Publication:: Lexington, Ky. : Printed by W. W. Worsley, 1823
Subject(s):: Hygiene
Longevity
Health Behavior
Digestive System Diseases -- prevention & control

35. The Abernethian code of health & longevity, or, Every one's health in his own keeping: by the proper regulation of the stomach and bowels, in order to the attaining and securing those invaluable blessings : founded on the principles and practice of John Abernethy, Esq., F.R.S. : containing full rules for the application of this system, by suitable regimen, diet, and exercise : with an introductory view of the living functions of the animal economy, showing their mutual relation to each other, and how they severally depend on that part of the machine that influences and regulates the whole : concluding with some remarkable instances of longevity and its comparative estimate in different classes of society

Publication:: New York : Minuse, 1831
Subject(s):: Hygiene
Dyspepsia -- prevention & control
Longevity

36. The art of prolonging life, briefly considered: a lecture, delivered before the Athenian Institute, January 1839

Author(s):: Pancoast, Joseph, 1805-1882
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by A. Waldie, 1839
Subject(s):: Longevity
Health Behavior

37. The discourses and letters of Louis Cornaro, on a sober and temperate life: with a biography of the author

Author(s):: Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566
Publication:: New York : Fowlers and Wells, [1842]
Subject(s):: Temperance
Health Behavior
Longevity

38. Discourses on a sober and temperate life: wherein is demonstrated, by his own example, the method of preserving health to extreme old age

Author(s):: Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566
Publication:: Middletown, N.J. : Evans, 1836
Subject(s):: Temperance
Health Behavior
Longevity

39. An inquiry into the cause of natural death, or, Death from old age: developing a new and certain method of preventing the consolidation or ossification of the body, and of thus indefinitely prolonging vigorous, elastic and bouyant health, and of rendering parturition easy and safe

Author(s):: Bostwick, Homer.
Publication:: New York : Stringer & Townsend, 1851
Subject(s):: Longevity
Aging
Cause of Death
Diet

40. Essays, literary, moral & philosophical

Author(s):: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas & Samuel F. Bradford ..., 1798
Subject(s):: Education
Sociology
Longevity

41. Essays, literary, moral and philosophical

Author(s):: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas and William Bradford ..., 1806
Subject(s):: Education
Sociology
Longevity