Hunger disease
Subtitle: studies
By: by the Jewish physicians in the Warsaw ghetto ; edited by Myron Winick ; translated from the Polish by Martha Osnos.
Contributors: Winick, Myron.
Series: Current concepts in nutrition ;; v. 7
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Deficiency diseases.; Malnutrition.; Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw.; Starvation.; Hunger.
Description: A translation from the Polish of a manuscript smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto that details studies performed by resident Jewish physicians on patients suffering from starvation. Topics include: clinical changes in adults and children, metabolic adaptations, circulatory changes, changes in the eye and in vision, changes in the blood and bone marrow, and pathologic anatomy.
Notes: Translation of Choroba głodowa.
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes index.