title: Nascher's Geriatrics at 100.
abstract: Ignatz Nascher's Geriatrics—the first American medical textbook on aging—turns 100 this year. This essay is a reappraisal, on its centennial, of Nascher's landmark work.
authors.affiliation: Section of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D005853:Geriatrics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States
keywords: geriatrics; history of medicine; textbooks