Necessary protein--wild herbs--unfiltered water.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 16-16
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article presents a look back at articles written 50, 100, and 150 years ago in "Scientific American." December 1954: In 1929 an English woman physician working among tribes in the Gold Coast of West Africa encountered a puzzling disease. Dr. Cicely Williams judged that the disease was due to malnutrition, and named the disease kwashiorkor, as the Ga tribe called it. December 1904: The United States raises a good many of its medicinal plants, but it is so addicted to the drug habit that it pays an annual bill of some $16,000,000 to other countries for importation. December 1854: The good people of Boston have been afflicted for some time with the offensive taste of their water.