Clive McCay papers, 1920-1967.

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Clive McCay papers, 1920-1967.

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Includes notes, reprints, reports, clippings, photographs, and correspondence documenting McCay's research concerning the effects of nutrition on the aging process, dietary habits of naval personnel and the development of nutritionally-sound rations during World War II, canine nutrition, fluoride and its use in water treatment, parabiosis, and the development of a high-protein, low-carbohydrate bread ("Cornell Bread"). Also included are notes, examinations, and handouts from his course on the History of Nutrition; printed reports from a U.S. Army research project on the effects of radiation on food; articles on medicine, nutrition, and animal science, collected by McCay and Sutherland E. R. Simpson and indexed by subject and author; slides used to illustrate lectures on nutrition and parabiosis; and an annotated bibliography of articles pertaining to the History of Nutrition, complied by McCay. Also, letters and notes about the naming and designation of the McCay Reading Room in Mann Library.

52.1 cubic ft.

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McCay, Clive Maine, 1898-1967

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Biochemist, nutritionist, gerontologist; professor of Animal Husbandry, Cornell University, 1927-1963. From the description of Clive McCay papers, 1920-1967. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073016 ...

Simpson, Sutherland, 1863-1926

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Scottish-born American physiologist. Educated at Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh and Edinburgh University; head of the Department of Physiology at Cornell Medical College, 1908-1926. Considered an authority on the thyroid and parathyroid glands; also published papers on the central nervous system, animal heat and body temperature, and secretory glands. From the description of Sutherland Simpson lecture notes, 1891-1924 (bulk 1896-1899) (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Cornell University

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Albert R. Mann Library

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