Medical research council, special report series, no. 277. Observations on the general effects of injury in man. With special reference to wound shock

1952 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
D.R.W.
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Special Report

A Note on the Generic Name of the Spirochaete of Syphilis (Treponema pallidum Schaudinn, 1905)

Parasitology ◽  
1926 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 368-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford Dobell
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Treponema Pallidum ◽  
Special Report

In a note which I contributed in 1918 to Special Report, No. 19 of the Medical Research Council, I attempted to show that the “correct” generic name of the spirochaete of syphilis—according to the Rules of Nomenclature—is Spironema Vuillemin, 1905. The premisses from which this conclusion was drawn were briefly set out in the publication cited, and need not be repeated here: but my argument—put very shortly—was that, since the Spirochaetes are Bacteria, and not Protozoa, their nomenclature must be determined by the Botanical Rules, not those of Zoology; and that of the three generic names proposed for the spirochaete of syphilis in 1905, Spironema has priority, and must therefore be accepted. (Spironema was proposed by Vuillemin in June, Treponema by Schaudinn in October, and Microspironema by Stiles and Pfender in December, 1905.)

scholarly journals The digestibility of English and Canadian wheats with special reference to the digestibility of wheat protein by man

1947 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. McCance ◽  
E. M. Widdowson
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Wheat Flour ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Apparent Digestibility ◽  
Wheat Protein ◽  
The Difference

1. Two men and four women carried out digestibility experiments on English and Canadian wheats at 90 and 80% extractions. The flour was the only source of protein and contributed 77−93% of the total dietary calories.2. At 90% extraction the digestibility of the diets in terms of calories was unaffected by the source of the flour and amounted to 93·3%. At 80% extraction the digestibility of the diet containing English wheat amounted to 95·6% and of those containing Manitoba wheat to 96·7%. The difference is attributed to mild intestinal upsets on the English flour.3. The apparent digestibility of the protein depended upon the amount of N in the wheat and fell as the extraction rose. A quantitative analysis of the results indicates that the protein in wheat flour of 90 and 80% extraction is completely digested and absorbed, and that the N found in the faeces is entirely derived from the secretions of the gut.The Medical Research Council paid for the expenses of this investigation. We are very much indebted to Drs T. Moran, C. R. Jones and other members of the Cereals Research Station, St Albans, without whose help this study would hardly have been possible. We have also very much appreciated the help we have received from the subjects, Miss M. Costain, Miss C. M. Walsham, Miss E. Wilkinson and Mr R. Tayler, and also from Flt.-Sergeant Childs, who kindly made the bomb calorimeter determinations.

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