INDEX 



Accessory food substances, see 



Vitamines 



Agricultural life, 148 

 Air-tight storage of grain, 120 et seq. 

 Alcohol, 7 

 Antiscorbutics, 60 

 Atrophy from disuse, 144 



Bacteria in grain, 117 



Beer and scurvy, 66 



Beri-beri, 11, 31, 39 



Blood pressure, 90 



Bread, 12 



Bread, white and brown, 45 



Breathing exercises, fallacy of, 153 



Butter, 13 



Calories, 10, 20 



Carbonic acid, action of on weevils, 



123 et seq. 

 Cereal reserves, conservation of, 



105 et seq. 

 Chlorine, 4, 83 

 Circulation, side-tracking of blood 



in, 91 



Circulation and natural life, 151 

 Cocoa butter, 17 

 Cod-liver oil, 42 

 Colloidal state, 93, 100 

 Cooking and scurvy, 61 

 Cutaneous system, Nature's 



method of regulating, 158 



Deficiency diseases, 16 

 Dieting, principles of, 10, 19-24 

 Digestive system and the open air, 



157 



Disease and physiology, 77 et seq. 

 Drowning of lung, 84 



Endowment of research, 6 

 Exercise, 152 



Fat-soluble A, 38 



Fat supply, 13 



Fatty acids, 13-15 



Food (War) Committee of Royal 



Society, 8 

 Food control, 8 

 Food-values, 10 



Games, 146 et seq. 



Gassing, 82 



German organisation, 18 



Glycerine, 13, 15 



Goitre, 96 



Grain, sources of damage to, 106 et 



seq. 



Grain Pests (War) Committee, 109 

 Guanidin and tetany, 98 

 Guinea pigs and scurvy, 56 

 Gum in transfusion, 93 

 Gymnastic exercises, 156 



" Heating " of stored cereals, 1 10, 



118, 128 



" Hermetically sealed " tins, 126 

 House- building analogy, 36 

 Human scurvy, 62 

 Hygiene an outcome of physiology, 



3 



Interallied Food Commission, 9 

 Knowledge, pursuit of, 101 



Lanoline, 17 



Lime and lemon juice, 67 



Margarine, 16 



Medical Research Committee, 6, 



89 

 Milk and milk products in relation 



to scurvy, 69 

 Milk legislation needed, 17 



161 



