Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the peculiar diet of Eskimos led Professor Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of McGill University Faculty of Medicine to join the Canadian Government's Eastern Arctic Patrol on a nine-week cruise last summer among the Hudson's Bay Co. fur trading posts which fringe Hudson Bay and the great islands to the north. Having systematized his clinical, bacteriological, chemical and sociological findings among the Eskimos, Dr. Rabinowitch published them...
...That diet supplies all the proteins, fats and carbohydrates which the Eskimos need to thrive on. Whenever they adopt white men's flour, they develop alkalosis. Seal meat is the Arctic purgative...
Unmitigated translation is a heavy enough dish at anybody's table, but German has something indescribably "schwer" in its very nature that makes such a diet untenable. The reformation of the elementary courses, especially the establishment of German 1, the long-awaited survey course in literature, seems to be just what the doctor ordered for those who want cultural knowledge along with their language...
...first 24 to 72 hours, particularly if the patient is in shock. The fluids are limited to [one quart] unless the patient is perspiring excessively. When nausea or vomiting is present, food is avoided; if it persists, bits of cracked ice and sips of charged water are given. The diet is slowly increased so that in five to seven days the patient is receiving a 750-850 calorie diet. An endeavor is made to accord each patient individual attention and to satisfy his tastes whenever possible. ... In the great majority of cases pain disappears after the first two days...
They added: "A first attack of coronary thrombosis rarely is fatal and the mortality of subsequent attacks is only moderate, if a regime of prolonged bed rest and limited diet is employed and the injudicious use of drugs, such as digitalis and nitroglycerine, avoided. Consequently the pessimism with which coronary artery thrombosis has been regarded seems to us no longer justified...