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The liability of old people to tumble and often to injure themselves is such a commonplace of experience that it has been tacitly accepted as an inevitable aspect of ageing, and thereby deprived of the exercise of curiosity.The literature, in fact, on what has always been a trial for the elderly and is now becoming a problem for the
J. H. Sheldon (Sat,) studied this question.