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PROF. JACKSON'S book is a systematic review of the subject of inanition, which term he uses to indicate the lack of food or of any food-stuff which is essential to the living organism. The general outline is on a strictly anatomical basis, the effects of starvation and malnutrition being considered separately for each system of the body. There are also included chapters on the effects of inanition on plants, protozoa, and the higher invertebrates. The book is singularly complete. The author not only, gives the results of his own researches into the subject, but reviews in the widest possible manner the literature of the last fifty years. He classifies the various states of inanition according to their character, degree, duration and severity, and mode of occurrence, and discusses fully the results of experimental starvation and the observations of morbid anatomists on cases of clinical malnutrition and deficiency diseases. Being a study from the morphological aspect, the book is of theoretical rather than practical interest to the physician, but it will be warmly welcomed by the pathologist and biologist. It is well indexed, and a very full bibliography is included.
The Effects of Inanition and Malnutrition upon Growth and Structure.
Prof.
C. M.
Jackson
By. Pp. xii + 616. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1925.) 30s. net.
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The Effects of Inanition and Malnutrition upon Growth and Structure . Nature 118, 152 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118152b0
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