He wrote, ""Geriatrics", from "geras", old age, and "iatrikos", relating to the physician, is a term I would suggest as an addition to our vocabulary to cover the same field that is covered in old age that is covered by the term pediatrics in childhood, to emphasize the necessity of considering senility and its disease apart from maturity and to assign it a separate place in medicine." This was originally published in an article entitled "Geriatrics" in the "New York Medical Journal" (1909; 90: 358-9).