xliv Annual Address. [February, 1912. 
standards for Europeans. In round numbers the figures were 
from 4 to 4 of the European standards. Some of the more 
important differences were (a) the large percentage of albumin- 
ous material in the blood, and the higher percentage of water, 
for clotting of the Bengali’s blood was much less than that of 
the Kuropean, in fact, only about half. As would be expected 
from these differences in the blood, a similar type of difference 
was found to occur in the other fluids and secretions of the 
od 
people on which, eventually, these differences must depend. 
This line of research plunged the work into the subject of 
protein metabolism, around which acute differences of opinion 
have arisen. As is now widely known by most people, the old 
and hitherto well-established views on the amount of albumen 
o disease have 
been seriously called in question. Professor Chittenden of Yale 
the usual standard of albuminous material. Not only does 
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this amount in their daily fare, happen to be the ruling races 
of the earth, is explained by Chittenden and his followers as 
tions made from Chittenden’s laboratory experiments. It so 
et tr that the teeming millions of the rice-eating areas of 
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