FOOTNOTES:
[1] F. W. Beneke, 'Die Altersdisposition.'
[2] Humphry, 'Old Age,' 1889, p. 23.
[3] Op. cit., p. 48.
[4] Humphry, 'Old Age,' 1889, p. 15.
[5] Leonard Hill, Allbutt's 'System of Me inc,' vol. xii; George Oliver, 'The Blood and Blood-Pressure,' p. 170, 1901.
[6] A medical friend who has suffered from tobacco heart assures me that at one period he could distinguish the contractions of the auricles and ventricles.
[7] Maguire, 'Trans. Clin. Soc. of London,' vol. xx, p. 235.
[8] Mott, "Cardio-Vascular Nutrition and its Relation to Sudden Death," Practitioner, xli, p. 161.
[9] Mott, 'The Croonian Lectures on the Degeneration of the Neurone,' p. 110, 1900.
[10] Dyce Duckworth, 'A Treatise on Gout,' 1889, p. 108.
[11] Murchison, 'Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Liver,' 3rd edition, 1885, p. 637.
[12] Cf. Clifford Allbutt, "Selections from the Lane Lectures," Philadelphia Med. Journ., January 27th, 1900.
[13] Mott, Practitioner, loc. cit., p. 169.
[14] Clifford Allbutt, 'System of Medicine,' v, p. 843.
[15] G. W. Balfour, 'The Senile Heart,' p. 236, 1894.
[16] Balfour, op. cit., p. 249.