Pathological Basis of Ageing 



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arteriosclerosis; 31 per cent of females die from cancer and 

 27- 1 })er cent from arteriosclerosis. Let me repeat once ai^ain 

 that these pathological states, in my ()i)inion, were the cause 



Table I 



The Commoner Morbid Conditions Found at Autopsy in 1,328 Mai,es 

 FROM Sixty-Five Years onwards. 



Percentage and total cases. 



Table II 



The Commoner Morbid Conditions Found at Autopsy in 544 Females 

 FROM Seventy Years onwards. 



Percentages in total cases. 



of decline and often of death of the subjects but that fre- 

 quently enough an acute complication was the immediate 

 cause of death. 



But some of these figures are misleading, for all who have 

 examined the organs of aged persons must have been struck 



