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Preliminary Note regarding an Experimental Investigation into the Effects of Varying Diets upon Growth and Nutrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Chalmers Watson  and
E. A. Schäfer
Chalmers Watson
Affiliation:
Physiological Laboratory of the University of Edinburgh
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Summary

I. The use of an excessive meat diet in rats induces a deterioration in the health of the animals. This deterioration is shown in (a) an imperfect physical development, (b) a loss of reproductive power, (c) defective lactation, and (d) a high mortality in early life in the second generation of meat-fed subjects.

II. The recuperative powers of these deteriorated animals, on a normal diet, is very striking.

III. In animals deprived of their ovaries, the minimum amount of proteid required is less than in normal females.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , 1906 , pp. 87 - 94
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1906

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page 87 note * I am indebted to Dr F. H. A. Marshall and Mr W. A. Jolly for these animals.

page 90 note * On 27/9/05 the female rat gave birth to a litter of eight.