Geoffrey Taylor, who at the outbreak of the last war was Professor of Medicine in Lahore, here gives his medical history up to and including the cancer of the stomach from which he was suffering when he gave this address. He relates this to the high concentration of nitrates in our diet which he discusses in detail.
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