IN ITS MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT.
BY
ENOCH V. STODDARD, A.M., M.D.,
Emeritus Professor of Materia Medica and Hygiene in the University of Buffalo;
Member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and of the Central
New York Medical Association; Fellow of the New York Academy
of Medicine and of the American Academy of Medicine;
Late Surgeon 65th Regt. N. Y. Vols.; Late
Health Commissioner, Rochester,
N. Y.; etc., etc.
STARVATION.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
Physiology teaches that life can only be maintained in the living organism by a constant equilibrium between its waste and repair. Nutrition is a term by which we describe this double movement of renewal of the molecular structure of the body, and in this general sense only, that nutrition is synonymous with the maintenance of the organism in a stable condition, is it employed here.
This condition of equilibrium is maintained by a regular and constant supply of food.