The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies

Name: The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies
Author: Elie Metchnikoff

by Elie Metchnikoff

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2016-03-21

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Hygiene Longevity Aging Older people -- Social conditions

About the author

Elie Metchnikoff

1845–1916

Best known for helping establish the science of immunity, this pioneering biologist brought the idea of phagocytosis into the center of medicine. His curious, wide-ranging work also led him to write about aging, health, and the microbes that live in the body.

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