Gerontological Studies on Hungarian Centenarians (Budapest, 1965)
GERONTOLOGICAL STUDIES ON HUNGARIAN CENTENARIANS Edited by L. Haranghy In January I960 the Gerontological Section of the Biological Society of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences decided to investigate the physical and mental condition of all individuals who had reached the age of 99 years in Hungary. The aim of the investigations has been to determine the physiological changes developing in 100- year-old persons under present living conditions and io further the solution of the problem of the upper limit of human life. Twenty-three subjects were investigated from the aspects of general gerontology, demography, anthropology, internal medicine, roentgenology, nutrition, psychiatry, surgery, ophthalmology and stomatology. This book gives a full aceount of these investigations. Clinical data and postmortem report of one of the cases having died at the age of 101 are also included. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ BUDAPEST