Inanition Cases

Protein Hydrolysates in the Treatment of Inanition

areas came to Calcutta in large numbers in search of food and work. Those that were unsuccessful in their quest made the open streets their home, and many of these in course of time reached the stage of advanced inanition. Arrangements had to be made to pick them up from the streets and send them to emergency hospitals for treatment and care. It was found that about 25 per cent of the cases rem...

Protein Hydrolysates in Shock and Inanition

Diet and trauma.

Before passing to the principal aspect of this subject it is necessary to consider first the train of reactions which are known to set in when a person is subjected to physical trauma, and then to appreciate their bearing on dietary requirements. It is also important to note the influence of the patient's physiological condition at the time of trauma on the subsequent sequence of events. In cas...

The Liver Requirement of the Fasting Organism

In rats fasted after the removal of about seven-tenths of the liver the remaining fragment undergoes ordinarily a marked simple hypertrophy and attains the weight reached through a process of simple atrophy by the entire liver of fasting controls. Under circumstances of exceptionally severe inanition, the hypertrophy may not occur, the fragment remaining unchanged or even undergoing a slight at...

Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy in the Guinea Pig and Rabbit

A diet is described, which leads to a progressive, highly selective, and ultimately fatal dystrophy of the voluntary muscles. Guinea pigs and rabbits are susceptible, rats resistant. The diet used is complete in known requirements, except for vitamin E; the addition of this factor, however, does not prevent the development of the disease. The lesions are not due to inanition, infection, or scur...