By H. P. Pickerill, MD
Summary: An all but forgotten classic in nutritional research that should be required reading for all health professionals and dentists in particular. Dr. Royal Lee studied this report—a precursor to the famous studies of Dr. Weston A. Price—in his youth, well before graduating Marquette Dental College. Pickerill, writing before the discovery or knowledge of vitamins, astutely recognizes the decay of teeth as a defect in diet, sugar and refined carbohydrates being the likely culprits. In contrast, he reviews the dietary practices of various indigenous people around the world and notes their universal near immunity to dental cavities. The statistics he cites on dental health in England at the turn of the century make clear why the British government formed the Royal Commission on Physical Deterioration and give one an idea of just how far back the ill effects of consuming processed foods began. Cartwright Prize Essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 1906–1910. Reprint 132, 1912.
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