. The effects of inanition and malnutrition upon growth and structure . 0 30 40 60 80 100 IK) 140 160 180 £00 HO C4Q ffiO d60 300 3Z0 340 360 380 400 4£0 440 460 460 500 5Z0 Fig. 42.—Chart showing curves of growth in albino rats amply refed after underfeeding from 3 weeks to 1 year of age. (Jackson and Stewart '20.) The test rats fail to recover fully, remaining permanently stunted. underfeeding for various periods, the head, limbs, trunk and tail rapidly regain their normal conditions (Table 7). Even in rats permanently dwarfed by long underfeeding, Jackson and Stewart ('20) found that the pa
. The effects of inanition and malnutrition upon growth and structure . 0 30 40 60 80 100 IK) 140 160 180 £00 HO C4Q ffiO d60 300 3Z0 340 360 380 400 4£0 440 460 460 500 5Z0 Fig. 42.—Chart showing curves of growth in albino rats amply refed after underfeeding from 3 weeks to 1 year of age. (Jackson and Stewart '20.) The test rats fail to recover fully, remaining permanently stunted. underfeeding for various periods, the head, limbs, trunk and tail rapidly regain their normal conditions (Table 7). Even in rats permanently dwarfed by long underfeeding, Jackson and Stewart ('20) found that the parts of the body regain the weights nearly normal for corresponding body weight, although body length and tail length become slightly subnormal relative to body weight (Table 8). In the human species, the available evidence indicates that the process of recovery from inanition is very similar to that in other mammals (cf. Carrington '08). As previously mentioned, numerous voluntary adult fasts of 30 days or more are recorded, with subsequent recovery from loss of 20-25 per cent in body weight. Recovery from still greater losses is not unusual after periods of mal- nutrition due to chronic illness. Durlocq (Fernet '01) noted complete recovery in a hysterical girl, aged 15, who had lost 38 per cent in weight through total inanition. In the Russian famine, Ivanovsky ('23) observed recovery from extreme emaciation. On the other hand, there are definite limits beyond which recovery is impossible, as in the case reported by Meyer ('17), where recovery
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