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by a series of circumstances that is neither for the physical 
welfare nor the efficiency of those whose daily food is deficient 
in albuminous principles. In the work sonnentsd with these 
researches, the food stuffs of Rail Behar, and the United 
Provinces have been anal sed, and owing to the kindness and 
co-operation of Professor Benedict of the Carnegie Institute of 
Washington, the heat values of the food materials have also 
been determined and placed on a sure foundation. During all 
these investigations, those engaged in the work have taken 
advantage of every opportunity of studying the effects of a 
high and a low level of albuminous interchanges within the 
body on the physical development, efficiency and general well- 
being of the different tribes and races in India. By elimina- 
tion of all other factors as can be done in a study of people 
who obtain a liberal allowance of albumen in their daily food 
are superior in physique, efficiency, health, and general capa- 
bilities to other tribes and races, etc., whose allowance of albu- 
men has been habitually curtailed. It is very generally recog- 
nized that it is only by research on a large scale conducted on 
fairly large numbers of people living under natural conditions, 
that progress will be made in the study of the nutrition of 
the body, and not by laboratory experiments, however inter- 
esting these may be. In India we possess unrivalled oppor- 
country and which require to be earnestly grappled + the 
rising generation of medical siete The hitherto un- 
solved riddle of that ty; glycosuria which impairs the 
Ow does it act? That curse of modern eerie’ dys- 
pepsia, and ambol (acidity) one of its distressing symptoms 
why is it so common in Bengal ? Is excess of starchy diet the 
only factor? Why is it so incurable? Isit racial? Again 
the so-called infantile or biliary cirrhosis of the liver. How is 
it brought about? Then again take the causes of the very 
igh mortality amongst your infants in large Indian cities. 
My friend, Dr. Indu Madhab Mallik (id a member of the 
