MEDICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.

Proceedings of the Gwalior District Medical Society

Fifteenth Meeting, held in Morar, *lth January 1882. Surgeon-Major F. R. Hogg, A. M. D(President) in chair. Surgeon O. Or. Wood, A. M. D., read a paper on the subject of " Micro-Organisms in Disease." The President in opening the discussion referred to the interest of the subject, and asked Dr. Wood to send his paper in extenso to the Indian Medical Gazette for publication. Surgeon-Major Buchan...

Calcutta Medical Society, Proceedings of the

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

When the name vitamin B,, was proposed by Rickes, Brink, Koniuszy, Wood & Folkers (1948), my colleagues and I debated whether we should adopt the term or retain the earlier name ' anti-pernicious anaemia factor', even when our red crystalline substance was shown to be identical with theirs (Smith & Parker 1948; Fantes, Page, Parker & Smith, 1949). It is now abundantly clear that this substance ...

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Proceedings of the nutrition society.

Controversy concerning the relative nutritive merits of protein from plant ‘and animal sources is of long standing. Our conception of the total quantity of protein required has also swung wildly from one extreme to the other. This scientific problem, intrinsically difficult in itself, has been, and still is, emotionally bedevilled by prejudice and sentiment. Recent advances in biochemistry have...