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DURING August 1946 investigations were carried out on twenty-one civilian citizens of Wuppertal, an industrial German city south of Essen. For at least three months the official rations had not provided more than 35 gm. of protein, 15 gm. of fat and 176 gm. of carbohydrate a day, a total of 1,050 calories. Most of the subjects had been on short commons for twelve months. They were all undernourished and had lost 6–46 per cent of their body weights. All stated that they had had nutritional œdema, and in sixteen this was clinically detectable. There was nothing in their clinical histories or examinations to suggest hepatic dysfunction. Their livers were not enlarged and no examples of gynecomastia, spider nævi or palmer hyperæmia were encountered.
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SHERLOCK, S., WALSHE, V. Effect of Under-nutrition in Man on Hepatic Structure and Function. Nature 161, 604 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161604a0
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