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THE symposium on nutrition in relation to disease at the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association took the form of a joint meeting of Sections I (Physiology) and M (Agriculture). In the last ten years there has been a great develop ment of research in the nutrition of farm animals. There are now two institutions one at Cambridge and one at Aberdeen devoted entirely to research in this subject. The meeting served the purpose of bringing together for review, results obtained in the medical field, where conclusions are drawn from experiments on small laboratory animals and from clinical observations on human beings, and those obtained in work with the larger domestic animals. Though the papers showed that the fundamental principles and the major problems are the same in both fields, they brought out the fact, sometimes overlooked, that the requirements for adequate nutrition and the effects of deficiencies of the various food constituents are not the same in all species. Dr. H. fl. Green emphasised the necessity for caution in applying directly in medical or veterinary practice, results obtained with experimental animals.
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Nutrition in Relation to Disease. Nature 134, 557–558 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134557a0
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