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A history of ideas about the prolongation of life
Gerald J. Gruman
Publisher: New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2003.
ISBN: 0826118755   DDC: 612.68   LCC: QP85  

Notes:

Originally published: Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society,
1966.

"Bibliography": p. 199-212.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Robert N. Butler -- Foreword / Harry R. Moody -- I.
Introduction -- II. Apologism -- III. Prolongevity Legends -- IV.
Taoist Prolongevitism in Theory -- V. Taoist Prolongevitism in
Practice -- VI. The Alchemists -- VII. The Hygienists -- VIII. The
Philosophes -- IX. Epilogue.

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Dewey Class: 612.68 -- Human physiology
LCC Number: QP85

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xiv, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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