SALT STARVATION
RESEARCH WORKERS' TEST EFFECTS ON HUMAN BODY LONDON, April 10 How Dr. McCance, a biochemical research worker at King's College Hospital, and three students, including a girl, starved themselves of salt in order to test the fleets of such deprivation on the human body, is described in the Lancet. The quartette lived mostly on saltfree bread, synthetic milk, unsalted butter and thrice-boiled vegetables. They did not use soap. All were sick, but never hungry. They developed cramp, palpitation of the heart and mental languor, and were content to sit in a chair inactive for hours on end. They took s«iven days to recover. Dr. McCance says he hopes the experiments will help to unravel the causes of a number of obscure diseases.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 10
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