Dr. Victor E. Levine
Describes Trip Of
U S C G Northland
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the natives were free from any epi
demic disease.
I examined three hundred Eskimo
children and one hundred adults
from Point Barrow to Teller inclu
sive, for the presence of latent
scurvy. Owing to the lack of fresh
fruit and vegetables and also frsh
meat during the summer season, it
is exceedingly interesting and highly
important from a medical and scien
tific viewpoint to determine the ex
istence of latent scurvy among the
Arctic natives.
My results indicate that there are
no sharply defined symptoms of
scurvy among these people. Latent
scurvy, however, proved to be com
mon to a very marked degree. Evi
dently the Eskimos do derive vita
min C, that is the anti-scurvy vita
min, from their native foods, suffi
cient to prevent the development
of frank and fullfledged scurvy, but
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insufficient to hinder the develop
ment of sub-clinical, latent or incip
ient scurvy. Since partial or com
plete lack of any one vitamin in the
diet lowers resistence to infections,
and paricularly to infections of the
upper and lower respiratory tract,
it is very likely that the frequent
waves of influenza that come upon
the Eskimos in winter or spring may
have their origin in whole or in part
to the presence of insufficient vita
mins in their diet.
In this connection it may be em
phatically stated that the Eskimo
would fare much better from a
health standpoint if he subsisted on
his native foods, which are richer
by far in vitamin content, that the
type of white man”s food—white
flour,sugar tea & coffee—with which
he supplements more or less, his
own particular foods. I do not mean
to raise an argument against the food
of the white man. His diet is in
deed a very good and substantial
one, but it is varied and consists of
more than flour, sugar, tea and cof
fee. It is not the white man’s food
that is causing physical deterioration
among the Eskimos, but his adoption
of that part of the white man"s
food that has the least to offer in
the way of vitamins and minerals.
I also have evidence which indi
cates that the white man living in
the Arctic may be maintaining him
self on a diet closely bordering on
the production of latent or incipient
scurvy. It is of paramount import
ance for the attainment of freedom
from disease and enjoyment of vig
orous health, for the white man in
the North, to include in his diet as
much fresh fruit and vegetables as
he could secure. Failing to supply
himself with fresh fruits and vege
tables, he should be particularly
careful to consume very liberal quan
!
tities of canned tomatoes or tomato
juice, canned grapefruit, canned or
ange juice, canned grapefruit juice,
canned lemon juice, canned pineap
ple juice, canned green peas, and
canned spinach. The citrus fruits
are especially valuable as anti-seor
butic agents.
While fifty miles from Point Bar
row we received on August 15th the
tragic news of the death of Wiley
Post and Will Rogers—We were
much saddened by the loss of these
two splendid men—an irretrievable
loss to America.
I wish to thank Commander Wil
liam K. Scammell, Captain of the
Cutter Northland, Lieutenant Com
mander Carl H. Hilton, Executive
Officer, and the officers of the ward
room for their fine sense of hospi
tality and for their many acts of
courtesy.
My ut'ep appreciations to captain
iThos. E. Ross in making final ar
rangements with Commander Scam
mell for my passage on the North
land and for his kind efforts in bring
ing me off the cutter, on its return
j to Nome.
Editor's Note—
Dr. Victor E. Levine is a member
of the Explorer’s Club, a fellow of
the American Geographical Society,
a fellow of the American Medical
Association, a fellow of the Ameri
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and a fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts and Sciences,
Great Britain.
Dr. Levine has a national reputa
tion in the field of hygiene and nu
trition, and is well known in medi
cal circles. A biographical sketch
appears in Who’s Who in America,
in American Men of Science, and in
Who's Who Among North American
Authors.
He is engaged in making a medi
cal survey of the Eskimo under the
auspices of the School of Medicine,
Creighton University, Omaha, Ne
braska. This is his third trip to the
Arctic.
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