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    Elderly care book

    We are stuck on dial-up, and it takes many hours for me to load enough of a Google book to see whether it's suitable or not. This manual on gerontology looked interesting, but I cannot find any publication date in what I have been able to see so far:

    Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: on the Care of the Aged ; and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love
    http://books.google.com/books?id=Ed-pXsTAFp0C&pg=PA1113&lpg=PA1113&dq=cacochimia&source=web&ots=aHoOT74Lam&sig=WgeymX1rD2Ujr-F2ymtdXoI5Y6U#PPA17,M1
    Gabriele Zerbi (1445-1505), born in Verona of an old patrician family, was a remarkable medical man & anatomists of his time. He probably studied at the University at Padua, where he began to teach medicine in 1467, having obtained the doctorate at the age of 22. He then taught medicine & logic at the University of Bologna, lived & worked in Rome, & finally returned to Padua. Maximianus the Etruscan, as he calls himself, lived in Rome in the age of Justinian, the 6th century. Only a few biographical facts about him can be gleaned from his 6 poems. Chapters: Introduction to Zerbi & His Works; text of The "Gerontocomia": On the Care of the Aged; Intro. to Maximianus's Elegies on Old Age & Love; & The Elegies. Bibliography.


    Can anyone whose computer has reached the 21st century enlighten me?

    Thank you all...
    Becky Morgan
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    Re: Elderly care book

    I'm on dialup too, at 31,200 bps, but I just load google books a page at a time in basic html. From the table of contents, it looked like there was basic background information in the introduction. Page twelve indicates Zerbi's Gerontocomia was published in 1489.

    Hank Trent
    hanktrent@voyager.net
    Hank Trent

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      Re: Elderly care book

      It was printed by the American Philosophical Society, Independence Square, Philadelphia in 1988. Part of it's MEMOIRS series, Volume 182.

      Library of Congress number: 87-72873
      ISBN : 0-87169-182-5
      William Lee Vanderburg
      26th NCT

      Robert S. Bowers / 4th NC
      Calvin Spry / 57th NC

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        Re: Elderly care book

        Becky,

        If you go to this link http://worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/18763544 which is located on the link for the Google Book Search in your original post, you can put in your ZIP and it will give you the closest library to you that has it. There are ten copies within 51 miles of my house.
        William Lee Vanderburg
        26th NCT

        Robert S. Bowers / 4th NC
        Calvin Spry / 57th NC

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          Nothing within 100 miles of me. I didn't expect there would be.
          It's so frustrating to now the whole world's out there, and free wireless is a couple of miles away, but I can't use it. DH broe the wireless access on this laptop a couple of days after I got it.
          Becky Morgan

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            Re: Elderly care book

            Maximianus dates to about 6th century during the age of Justinian according to page 309
            Kimberly Schwatka
            Independent Mess

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