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CHAPTER VI. THE MERITS AND DEMERITS OF DIETARIES 



POOR IN PROTEIN - - 122148 



Chittenden's beliefs regarding danger of excessive protein - - 122 



Foundations for such beliefs not considered valid - 123 



Criticisms by Hutchison, v. Noorden, and others - 123 

 Chittenden's three groups of experiments, conditions observed, 



results seemingly obtained, discussed - 124 

 Benedict's critical examination of Chittenden's experiments on 



soldiers of the Hospital Corps - - 124 



Benedict's criticisms elaborated and discussed - - 125 



The causes of Chittenden's discordant results examined - - 128 



Conclusions arrived at - 129 



Chittenden's studies with eight athletes - - 130 



Significance of their loss in body weight - 131 



Regretful absence of controls 131 



Objections to and criticisms of Chittenden's experiments 



and deductions therefrom summarized - - 132 



Other criticisms of a more general nature summarized - 133 



Nietzsche on the effects of a rice dietary - 134 

 Mullick on the medical aspects of student life in 



Calcutta - - 135 

 Evidence afforded by the dietaries of local and convict prisons in 



England - - 135 



Dunlop's work for the Prison Commission of Scotland - - 136 



French prison dietaries - - 136 

 Other lines of evidence bearing on the effects of dietaries poor in 



protein : 



Darwin's observations on miners in Chili - 137 



Livingstone's observations on tribes of Central Africa - - 137 



Zieman's study of coloured races in Africa - - 137 



Irving Fisher's tests of no scientific value - 138 



Intercollegiate tests in Calcutta and deductions therefrom - 138 



Evidence afforded by the negro, poor white, and Italian labourer 139 



Evidence afforded by the successful races of mankind - - 140 

 Experiments on animals : 



Munk, Rosenheim, Hagemann, and Jagerroos - - 140 



Chittenden's experiments on six dogs - - 140 



His work and findings unfavourably criticized - - 141 



Further criticisms - 142 



Evidence afforded by the feeding of swine on a low and high 



protein dietary respectively - - 143 



Similar experiments on cows - - 144 



General summary of the evidence adduced - - 145 

 Doubts strengthened by a consideration of the caloric values of 



diets - - 146 



Benedict's observations on Fletcher - - 146 



Heat value of diet of soldiers insufficient - 147 



Most probable explanation of discrepancy - - 148 



CHAPTER VII. THE EFFECTS OF A LOW PROTEIN DIETARY IN 



THE TROPICS - 149178 



Orme on the effeminacy of the inhabitants of Indostan - 149 



The cause of this effeminacy a rice diet - 150 



Scrafton on the effects of a rice diet - - 150 



Cambridge ,,,,,, - 151 



Strachey's opinion - 151 



The temptation to follow Chittenden's lead - - 152 

 Regretful resistance after a study of the results accompanying a 



low protein intake - 153 



Macaulay on the characteristics of the Bengali - - 154 



Strachey's comments thereon - - - - 154 



