The infant geriatrics.
Recent histories of geriatrics suggest that early physicians contributed to the degradation of old age by labeling it a disease. This diagnosis provoked little or no interest in the "illness," and active plans for treatment of the elderly were not developed. An analysis of the records of the Boston Almshouse Hospital indicates that, even for elite doctors, assessments of the elderly's morbidity were prompted as much by the desire for self-advancement as by the elderly's needs.
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