An explanation is in order. Experimental work with animals shows a loss of secondary sexual characteristics after two or three generations on impoverished diets. Males lose their heavy masculine frame, their make up
Soil Fertility and Nutritive Value of Foods
We are gradually coming to believe that the soil, in terms of the food it grows, is a controlling factor in agricultural creation. The pattern of the soil fertility, according to the climatic
A Study of the 1946 Poliomyelitis Epidemic by New Bacteriologic Methods
A review of results of previous studies made by others and myself on the importance of a specific type of streptococcus in the etiology of poliomyelitis, and by myself on the relation of
Quality of Crops Also Depends on Soil Fertility
It is a familiar advertising slogan that says “The quality will be remembered long after the price is forgotten.” Implied in this are the simple facts that price is only an arithmetical number;
Bacteriologic, Etiologic, and Serologic Studies in Epilepsy and Schizophrenia III. Cutaneous Reactions to Intradermal Injection of Streptococccal Antibody and Antigen
When a patient with a disease due to or associated with a streptococcus is given an intracutaneous injection of an antigenically related streptococcal preparation, there develops an immediate cutaneous erythema at the site
Bacteriological Studies of Multiple Sclerosis
The clinical diagnosis of the patients in this study was made by attending physicians and by consulting neurologists. The patients studied represented samplings of the disease from widely separated regions and widely different
A Practical Way To Avoid Malnutrition
After considering the collected evidence of the effects of the use of foods that are inherently incapable of building health, one is forced to conclude that the only way to avoid malnutrition is
An Historical Review of the Physical Examination of the Chest
There is no part of medicine that offers so great a challenge to the medical mind as diagnosis. Early diagnosis detects disease when the least harm has been done to the patient and