MedicineOtolaryngologyPediatricsPediatric DermatologyPediatric OtolaryngologySarcopeniaChild GrowthGrowth AssessmentMalnutritionPediatric GrowthUndernutritionChildhood MalnutritionNutritional Growth DisordersPediatric Malnutrition
This scholarly monograph is a distinct contribution to biology and medicine. It deals essentially with the growth and morphologic factors in various types of fasting, total or partial; the functional side is only incidentally touched on. In Part I there are chapters on inanition in plants, in protozoa and in the higher invertebrates. Part II, which is the major portion, contains two chapters on the effect of total and partial starvation on the body as a whole, and twenty-two chapters on detailed effects on separate organs. Part III contains a short chapter of general conclusions, with some statistical tables and a bibliography of 107 pages. The book contains many excellent photographs and diagrams and a useful index. Dr. Jackson has for many years been actively working in the field of structural changes in the body and body organs as a result of faulty nutrition. In this work he has summarized