"Stopped." - Last word of the British surgeon and anatomist Joseph Henry Green (1791-1863) while feeling his own pulse. (p112, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bill Bryson, 2019)
In 1970 Congress cancelled the only comprehensive federal nutrition survey ever attempted after the results proved embarrassing. "A significant proportion of the population surveyed is malnourished or at high risk of developing nutritional problems," the survey reported just before it was axed. (p243, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bill Bryson, 2019)
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