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A STUDY OF RECENT FOOD RESEARCHES

LAURA A. LANE, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1932;98(9):726-730.

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Since early times, the existence of a relationship between diet and certain diseases of the eye has been recognized. Early Egyptian literature tells of people living on special diets, seeing poorly at twilight, and the cure of this hemeralopia by the feeding of liver.

Egypt was the greatest grain raising country of antiquity. Grass grazing land, cattle and dairy products were scarce. These conditions have continued and may be responsible for much of the eye disease existing in Egypt today.

EFFECT OF FAULTY DIET ON THE EYE

Chow¹ states that one of the most constant signs of a food deficiency is a pigmentation of the conjunctiva with reduction of the light sense to half normal or less and that 65 per cent show the reduction without signs of an avitaminosis as Bitot spots or prexerosis of the cornea. Ejler Holm² has shown that the retina is rich in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the Eighty-Second Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia, June 11, 1931.

Owing to lack of space, this article has been abbreviated for The Journal. The complete article appears in the Transactions of the Section and in the author's reprints.

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