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Physical Degeneration
A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets
and Their Effects
BY
Weston A. Price, MS., D.D.S., F.A.G.D.
Member Research Commission, American Dental Association
Member American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Author, "Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic"
Foreword by
Earnest Albert Hooton
Professor of Anthropology,
Harvard University
With 134 figures
Paul B. Hoeber, Inc
Medical Book Department of Harper & Brothers
New York London
Copyright, 1939, by Paul B. Hoeber, Inc.
All rights reserved. This book or any
part thereof must not be reproduced
in any form without permission of the
publishers. Printed in the United
States of America.
To that kindred soul
My Wife
who has assisted me so greatly
on these difficult expeditions,
this book is lovingly dedicated.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Foreword by Earnest A. Hooton
Introduction
- Why Seek Wisdom from Primitive Races
- The Progressive Decline of Modern Civilization
- Isolated and Modernized Swiss
- Isolated and Modernized Gaelics
- Isolated and Modernized Eskimos
- Primitive and Modernized North American Indians
- Isolated and Modernized Melanesians
- Isolated and Modernized Polynesians
- Isolated and Modernized African Tribes
- Isolated and Modernized Australian Aborigines
- Isolated and Modernized Torres Strait Islanders
- Isolated and Modernized New Zealand Maori
- Ancient Civilizations of Peru
- Isolated and Modernized Peruvian Indians
- Characteristics of Primitive and Modernized Dietaries
- Primitive Control of Dental Caries
- One Origin of Physical Deformities
- Prenatal Nutritional Deformities and Disease Types
- Physical, Mental and Moral Deterioration
- Soil Depletion and Plant and Animal Deterioration
- Practical Applications of Primitive Wisdom
- Loetschental Valley in Switzerland
- Hand-mill used by natives in Loetschental Valley
- Natives of modern Swiss valley showing normal design of face and dental arches when adequate nutrition is provided
- Natives of Loetschental Valley showing tooth decay and deformed dental arches typical of those living on modern foods
- A typical "black-house" on the Isle of Lewis. Natives of the Isle of Lewis
- Tooth decay in native of Isle of Harris living on modern foods and excellent teeth of natives living on primitive foods
- Gaelic children living on native foods
- Variations in growth of oats fertilized with varying quantities of smoke-thatch
- Primitive Alaskan Eskimos showing excellent facial and dental arch formation
- Primitive Alaskan mothers
- Alaskan Eskimos showing effect on teeth of modern foods
- Defective teeth and dental arches in Eskimo children living on modern foods
- Dried eggs of salmon are an important item of nutrition
- Facial and dental arch deformity in white boy born in Alaska and living on modern foods
- Family of forest Indians of northern Canada
- Modernized Indian children with tuberculosis
- Indian women and girls typical of those living on primitive foods
- Indian women typical of those living on modern foods
- Deformed facial formation in children of first generation after adoption of modern foods by parents
- Primitive Indians of central Canada: parents developed on native foods, children on modern foods
- Typical crippled children found among Indians living on modern foods
- Skulls of primitive Indians showing superb dental arches
- Skulls of primitive Indians showing excellent bone formation
- Seminole Indians, typical of those living on native foods
- Dental caries in Seminole Indians living on modern foods
- Seminole Indian children showing changes in facial and dental arch form which result from modern foods
- Skulls of pre-Columbian Indians of Florida
- Melanesians typical of those living under native conditions
- Facial bone formation in Melanesians living on native foods
- Fiji council house and hereditary Fiji monarch
- Tooth decay in natives of Fiji Islands living on imported food
- Tooth decay and changes in arch formation in first generation after adoption of modern foods
- Perfect dental arches of Polynesians living under native conditions
- Tahitians showing dental caries due to imported foods
- Changes in teeth and in dental arch formation of Polynesians living on modern foods
- Samoans typical of excellent facial and dental arch formation when living on native foods. Children with formation typical of those born of under-nourished parents
- Hawaiian family showing changes in facial form in younger children of same family
- Tooth decay and tuberculosis as a result of under-nutrition in a Polynesian girl
- Members of Masai tribe illustrating excellent results of diet of meat, milk and blood
- Method by which blood is drawn from steer
- Facial and dental arch development in African tribes living on native foods
- Facial and dental arch development in members of Belgian Congo tribe living on native foods
- Pygmies of Belgian Congo
- Dental caries in Africans who have adopted modern foods
- Changes in facial and dental arch development in children of first generation after adoption by parents of modern foods
- Africans showing facial deformities due to diet of modern foods
- Africans showing facial deformities in first generation after adoption by parents of modern foods
- African children showing a marked depression of middle third of face due to malnutrition of parents
- Camels' milk is an important item of nutrition in Asia and Africa
- Facial deformities found in boys and girls living in Cairo under modern conditions
- African children walking on "all fours"
- Typical Aborigines of Australia
- Magnificent dental arches and teeth found in Aborigines
- Dental caries in Aborigines living on modern foods
- Changes in teeth and arch formation in modernized Aborigines
- Disturbance in facial growth in modernized Aborigines
- Deformity patterns produced in Aborigines by modern food
- Effects of malnutrition in Australian Aborigines living on a reservation
- Typical Aborigine mothers with their children
- Comparison of skull of typical Aborigine with that of Peking Man
- Inhabitants of islands north of Australia have splendidly built bodies with fine facial and dental arch form
- Comparison of facial and dental arch formation in native and in white children on Thursday Island
- Good physical development of natives of Hammond Island
- Dental arches in natives on the islands of the Great Barrier Reef
- Contrast in facial and dental arch form between primitive and modernized natives
- Deformed dental arches in white children on Thursday Island
- Tooth decay in white children in Torres Strait islands
- Dental clinic maintained by New Zealand Government
- The Maori had the reputation of having the finest teeth and bodies of any race in the world
- Tooth decay is found in modernized Maori
- The whites living in New Zealand have poor teeth
- Facial deformities in Maori born after adoption of modern foods
- Maori skulls showing fine physical development
- Maori demonstrating some of the accessory essentials obtained from the sea
- Trephined skulls of ancient peoples of Peru
- Trephined skulls with gold plates in position
- Pottery jar depicting ancient Peruvian surgery. Bone showing healing of fracture
- Skulls of fishermen of Chimu culture
- Ancient aqueduct of Peru
- Descendants of ancient Chimus showing flattening of back of head
- Some descendants of the ancient Chimus are still living in a few fishing villages in the north of Peru
- Stone fortress built by primitive people of Andean Sierra
- Typical skulls of High Sierra Indians
- Descendants of the Tauhuanocan Indians of Peru
- The Quichua Indians living in the High Andes are descendants of the Incas
- Indians of the High Andes have magnificent physiques
- Indians of the High Andes have superb facial and dental arch development
- Introduction of modern foods to Sierra Indians produced wreckage of physiques
- Jungle Indians of the Amazon Basin
- Facial and dental arch development of the jungle Indians is superb
- Excellence of skeletal development of jungle Indians as expressed in faces and dental arches
- A marked change in facial form with crowding of teeth occurs in jungle Indians born after adoption of modern foods
- Rapid healing of fractured femur in boy suffering from malnutrition, after institution of proper nutrition
- Improvement accomplished by proper nutrition in boy suffering from inflammatory rheumatism
- Effect of different wheat products on rats
- Teeth showing permeability of decayed dentin to silver nitrate
- Three cases illustrating how nature can close an exposure of pulp due to dental caries
- Four Melanesians born on four different islands look like brothers but are not blood relations
- Four Polynesian girls living on different islands are not related though they look like sisters
- Disturbed heredity: two Peruvian Indian fathers with good physical development and their sons who show defects
- Disturbed heredity illustrated by father and son of Wakamba tribe of Central Africa
- Disturbed heredity in Quicha Indians
- Disturbed heredity in Australian Aborigines
- Two Maori sisters, and two white sisters in Peru, showing facial changes that may occur in same generation with change from primitive to modern diet by parents
- Six brothers showing facial changes in same generation due to change from primitive to modern foods by parents
- Change in facial form in two younger brothers, corresponding to change in diet by parents
- Natives from islands north of Australia showing progressive facial change in same family due to change in foods
- White girls in New Zealand illustrate progressive lengthening and narrowing of face and hips
- New Zealand Maori illustrating progressive change in facial form of two younger boys
- New Zealand Maori illustrating marked undersize and deformity of feet in second child in family
- Modernized Peruvian Indian boy showing disturbed development of face and foot
- Modernized coastal Indian of Ecuador showing serious physical deformities
- Eskimo children ill in tuberculosis ward of the government hospital at Juneau
- Patients in the Maori hospital in New Zealand showing marked facial under-development
- Girls in tuberculosis ward of New Zealand hospital for Maori show marked facial and dental arch disturbances
- Native Hawaiian children with tuberculosis, showing marked disturbances of facial form and dental arch development
- Deformities of pig due to lack of Vitamin A in mothers diet
- Deformities due to lack of adequate Vitamin A in mothers diet
- Many young of modern domestic animals are born with deformities
- Puppies born with physical defects due to deficiency of Vitamin A in father
- Typical deformities in domestic animals
- Criminals. Were their unsocial traits related to incomplete brain organization associated with prenatal injury
- Marked lack of normal facial development in notorious young criminals
- Typical Mongoloid defective
- Physical changes in Mongoloid type due to movement of maxillary bones to stimulate pituitary gland in base of brain
- X-ray pictures showing position of teeth before and during operation to move maxillary bones
- Twin boys with same deformity of dental arch
- Boys typical of group in special school for backward children
- Fiji woman who has gone long distance to gather special food needed for production of healthy children
- African woman who has come down the mountains to gather special plants of which the ashes prevent goiter
- X-rays of teeth of three children in one family show progressive injury in younger children
- X-rays illustrating progressive injury in two younger children in family
- X-rays comparing deformities of facial form in child born after long labor with better facial form in sister born after short labor
- Girl showing relationship between lack of pelvic development and deformity of face
MapsCanada
South Sea Islands
Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Peru
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