Eliminating the personal element and keeping the ultimate object in view, these communications are coincidentally a propos and intimate to our “Introduction”; hence their reproduction here.
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Extracts from Dr. Higgins’ Letter
Palazzina Tasso,
Campo S. Polo,
Venezia.
October 3, 1903.
Dear Mr. Fletcher,—A. appears to me to have an exceedingly broad and philosophic grasp of the problem of nutrition.
He recognises that all present data are subject to criticism, and that there are no scientifically accurate data available because
(a) Observations are taken over too short a period.
(b) They have mainly dealt with one side of the problem,—the output of muscular work.