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(1)PROF. CARLSON gives, in this volume, a general account of the work done, chiefly in his laboratory, on the physiology of hunger and some reiatd questions. He was fortunate to have as subject of experiment a man who possessed a gastric fistula, made in consequence of an cesophageal stricture when he was a boy. Experiments were also made on Prof. Carison himself and other normal subjects, as xvell as on dogs and lower animals.
(1) The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease.
By Anton Julius Carlson. Pp. vii + 319. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916.) Price 9s. net.
(2) Food and Health: An Elementary Text-book of Home Making.
By Prof. Helen Kinne Anna M. Cooley. Pp. vi + 312. (The Home Making Series.) (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1916.) Price 3s. net.
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BAYLISS, W. (1) The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease (2) Food and Health: An Elementary Text-book of Home Making. Nature 99, 41 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099041a0
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