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The first chapter is in many respects the most interesting and most stimulating part of the book. The science of nutrition is in a state of flux; old ideas are rapidly discarded for new ones, which soon are found to be merely a new dress for even older ideas, or are discarded because they, too, become antiquated. The only corrective that can help obtain a balanced point of view is knowledge of the history of the subject. Mendel's retrospect is painted in clean colors, charmingly assembled to form an unusually interesting moving picture of the development of the science of nutrition from Hippocrates to modern times. Three succeeding chapters are devoted to "the little things" in nutrition, vitamins and the protein factor, and are rendered particularly interesting because of the author's personal participation in the development of these subjects. The closing chapter deals with the energy problem, and closes with