Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 57: January, 1942The late Sir William Osler, at the age of 56, when under the emotional strain of saying goodbye to his friends in America, seemed rather pessimistic when he spoke of the relative useless ness of persons over 60. He lived, how ever, to be over 70 himself and exerted a profound in¿uence in later years upon medicine and upon the general welfare.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.