Now that doctors have made it possible for people to live longer, their next problem is to make old age tolerable. This week, in Live Long and Like It (Public Affairs Committee; 20¢), a doctor whose specialty is old age suggested a few helpful hints. The author: Dr. C. Ward Crampton, 70, chairman of the New York County Medical Society's committee on geriatrics and gerontology.
A man does not grow old in one package, says Dr. Crampton. A man of 65 may have a 40-year-old heart, 50-year-old kidneys, an 80-year-old liver, and try to...
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