| Description | Prepared by E M M Hume and Harriette Chick from the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine. Describes experiments with varying the amount of beri-beri and scurvy preventatives -- notes the need for including the wheat germ in flour, especially 'when the troops are separated from fresh food supplies and the rest of the nation consists largely of tinned foods' -- the increase in incidents of beri-beri where only white flour is eaten -- the lack of antiscorbutics in dried foods -- the relative values of vegetables, juices, meat, milk as antiscorbutics -- recommends that all biscuit for army purposes should be made entirely of while wheat meal.A An appendix describes the method of germinating and eating pulses for required antoscorbutics. |