Science often learns more from mistakes than from successes. About two years ago a Scotch biologist fertilized a closed-off arm of the North Sea with superphosphate and sodium nitrate, greatly increasing the plant food supply and the number of fish. A study made of young children from four to ten years of age gave evidence of inherent differences in the taste for alcohol. Most of them did not find the taste pleasant, but eight per cent of the children actually liked solutions submitted to them which contained as much as 50 per cent alcohol. Probably no single factor is more important in determining the outbreak of cancer in the predisposed than high feeding.
Many indications point to the gluttonous consumption of meat as likely to be especially harmful.
Statistics show that the consumption of meat has reached the amazing total of 131 pounds per head per year, which is more than double what it was half a century ago. The corpus vile of the criminal will doubtless be reserved for some expert, but in the meantime eager investigators have been studying photographs of Luigi Luccheni. To the ordinary observer he looks a commonplace ruffian, but the criminal anthropologists, we are assured, at once see complete asymmetry of the body. Amyotrophy on the left side is very marked. These stigmata are the consequences of grave cerebrospinal lesions occurring in infancy.