The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-01
RICHARDSON RECOMMENDS v1TAMIN A

Col Robert McCarrlSOn IS recognized as one of the foremost authorities nutrition. He is director of nutritional research in the Indian Fund Research association. In his laboratories at Coonoor in the Blue Mountains of southern India he maintains a stock of albino rats of which he uses about thousand a year. The rats fed diet similar to that of certain tribes in northern India, among which tribes are many of the finest physical specimens of mankind. The diet consists of whole wheat flour, unleavened bread lightly spread with fresh butter, legumes raw carrots, raw cab bage. fresh raw whole milk small ration of raw meat and bones once a week. The rats so | fed have no infantile mortality and no deaths of adults from natural causes. B., Over thousand rats so fed have been sub jected to careful necropses if you know what mean. If you don't know, it will never both CT you. No evidence of disease has been found in them, with the sole eXcetpion of occasional cyst of the liver containing tapeworm larvae.
 Experiments on large scale have been made, feeding some of these rats diets sim . liar to those commonly used by some other ln- dian peoples-such as cereals and vegetable vegetables. Among these rats. although they were kept under the same hygienic conditions | as the others, all kinds of disease occurred, in | the lungs, in the nose and sinuses in the ears, in the gastro intestinal tract; in the reproduc- tive organs; in the skin; in the nervous system: in the heart periments McCarrison found this one, similar to the diet of majority of people in England the worst White bread. margarine. tea. su- gar, jam, preserved meat, and scanty allow ance of overcooked vegetables. In America perhaps our staple diet is a mite better than that, yet not much better, for large portion of the population, particularly industrial and clerical slaves in towns and cities.
 McCarrison has carried out similar experi- ments with guinea-p pigs. rabbits. pigeons and monkeys and all showed similar results. Guinea pigs showed duodenal ulcer Rabbits developed goiter. Pigeons developed beriberi (mutiple neuritis) Monkeys developed ulcer ative colitis Some of us are like guinea pigs. Some of are like monkeys. You economies or limits your choice or foods and takes your
 While this great nutrition authority believes that many of the ailments to which man is sub ject are due to improper feeding, he takes pains to caution that his experiments on ani- mals must not be too rigidly applied to human nutrition.
 All the surgical conditions the animals de- veloped on faulty diets are probably due to lack of sufficient Vitamin A. Foods containing con siderabl Vitiamne5elnoj ETA OSHR ETAOEA siderable Vitamin A-such as raw fresh milk. butter, raw carrots, fresh greens or green veg etables and cod liver oil, protected the animals against such diseases. McCarrison particularly recommends Vitamin foods to prevent ade- holds, middle ear inflammation. gastric or duo denal ulcer, goter and urinary calculi. He be- lieves goiter is due to some deficiency in the diet but orsriSNs nHt sS iSSn dsSieasy ANn SSswERs
 Inlalc Through Mouth
 In your instructions for Belly Breathing you say to % % ane o" tsn San ohe the nostrils? (S. w. Al pee
 Answer-I don't know, but one can take 1t In more quickly through the mouth Thats why athletes in a hard running race. or swimmers others engaging in violent effort or an en- durance test always inhale through the mouth. The nose is all very well for quiet breathing when you are in no hurry.
 Diathermy for Nasal Trouble
 l am a chemist in q face powder factory. had my tonsils removed surgcally about five years ago. hut the operation left several tags of tOnsil tissue. These Dr - has removed with diathcrmy. Also he has treated my nasal trouble with eiectro-coagulati0n. as I was not breathing prODerIy throuEh my nose. This has given me great relief, have not seen that you recommend diathcrmy for nasal conditions. (F. E. H)
 Answer--Thank you Physicians with skill In the technic are employing diathermy (electro- coagulation) lot only for reducing thcken>d and other nasal conditions. lt may be regarded as more conservative than the older surgIcnI measures.