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NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)

NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)

1863 – 1944

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1914 CE

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Geriatrics: The diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations.

NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)
NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)

The first modern treatise on the subject. Nascher coined the term “geriatrics” in a paper of that name in N.Y. med. J., 1909, 90, 358-59.