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In the summer of 1920, in Paris, Richet, in his opening address as 

 president of the Physiological Congress, said, "Seek to understand things; 

 their utility will appear later. First of all it is knowledge which matters." 

 And he illustrated this by citing the investigations of Claude Bernard on 

 the glycogenic function of the liver and the investigations of Portier and 

 himself, while they were sailing through tropical waters on the yacht 

 of Prince Albert of Monaco, upon the subject of anaphylaxis which they 

 carried on with poisons of sea anemones injected into birds. 



Conclusion 



The writer is conscious of the fact that this story is incomplete. For 

 example, he is not forgetful of the work of Lyon Playfair (1818-1898), a 

 pupil of Ludwig who in 1865 gave various dietary standards among which 

 that for a man working moderately was about the same standard fixed 

 later by Voit. Nor does he forget the recent work of Robert Tigerstedt of 

 Helsingfors, or of Tangl (1866-1916) of Budapest, of Johannson of 

 Stockholm. The complete story would be long, too crowded with details, 

 perhaps already a justifiable criticism, of the material here presented. 



In a recent address given in Berlin, Friedrich Miiller stated that the 

 science of nutrition, which had been a German science, had partly passed to 

 America. But before it became German it was French, perhaps before 

 that English, and at its dawn Italian. In this country the early calori- 

 metric work of Wood and Reichert, both of Philadelphia, ought not to be 

 forgotten. Wood's work on fever is of importance. The work of Chitten- 

 den (a pupil of Kiilme of Heidelberg), continued by Mendel; of Atwater, 

 continued by Armsby, F. G. Benedict and H. C. Sherman; that of Mc- 

 Collum, a pupil of Mendel ; of Steenbock, a pupil of McCollum ; that of 

 Murlin, Du Bois, Ringer and me, has been work accomplished in the 

 earnest endeavor to unfold the truth as we have understood our mission. 

 We are not unmindful of the aid given by those of more purely chemical 

 tastes, like Osborne, Folin, Levene, Stanley Benedict, Jones, Van Slyke, 

 and Dakin; or of the mighty travail of Alonzo Taylor, chief scientific 

 adviser to Herbert Hoover in his work of providing nourishment for the 

 nations of the world. 



Across the water in that wonderful island called Great Britain are 

 Hopkins, T. B. Wood, Halliburton, Cathcart, Leonard Hill, Hardy, E. H. 

 Starling and others through whose unrecognized efforts the food program 

 of their country was saved from disaster during the war. Strong scientific 

 personalities have developed in Britain, despite lack of national recog- 

 nition. These men and men in France, in Italy, as well as in Germany, 

 are carrying on to-day what will to-morrow be a part of the History of 

 Metabolism, 



