Geriatrics; The Diseases of Old Age and Their Treatment, Including Physiological Old Age, Home and Institutional Care, and Medico-Legal Relations (Signed)

Ignatz Leo Nascher

P. Blakiston's Son & Co, Philadelphia, 1914

Inscribed by Ignatz Leo Nascher on front end page. Bound in publisher's cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Corners bumped. Edges chipped with loss. Some foxing. xviii, 517 pages, plates, 24 cm. *Autographed by author.* 

Ignatz Leo Nascher was an Austrian-American medical doctor, who many consider is the father of geriatrics (a term he first coined). In 1914, Nascher published Geriatrics: The Diseases of Old Age and Their Treatment, which included physiological home and institutional care and medical-legal relations. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).