دانلود کتاب Towards the Conquest of Vitamin A Difficiency Disorders

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Cover ......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Foreword......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
disorders (VADD)......Page 14
Misunderstandings about night blindness......Page 16
The story of cod-liver oil......Page 18
Vitamins and the arrow of time......Page 19
The early neglect of xerophthalmia......Page 21
Discovery of the vitamin......Page 22
Abandoning of the anti-infective vitamin......Page 23
A personal odyssey......Page 26
Growing up between two world wars (1924Ð1949)......Page 27
The Edinburgh Medical School and nutrition......Page 35
Nutrition at the London School......Page 39
Mission in India (1950Ð1954)......Page 41
William Carey, the Baptist Missionary Society and the Kui people......Page 44
Cicely Delphine Williams (1893Ð1992)......Page 48
Back in London (1954Ð1957)......Page 49
The East African Institute for Medical Research......Page 57
The Princeton conference in June 1958......Page 59
Medical research in Tanganyika (1958Ð1962)......Page 61
H. A. P. C. Oomen (1902Ð1986)......Page 62
The Switzerland of the Middle East (1962Ð1976)......Page 78
The American University of Beirut, Lebanon......Page 79
The......Page 95
Xerophthalmia prevention in Madurai, India......Page 96
The International Vitamin A Consultative Group......Page 103
Return to Edinburgh (1976Ð1988)......Page 107
Four uneasy bedfellows:......Page 108
Retirement in Worthing (1988)......Page 114
Update and commentary......Page 118
Looking to the future......Page 122
Epilogue......Page 130
References......Page 132
Index......Page 142