Correct first guess. New Yorker Eugene Dubois wrote a long series of
papers with various collaborators on metabolic rates in clinical
investigation. This paper however was co-authored with a Delafield Dubois
of Vermont - ?? nepotism??
(I suspect the poisoner you are thinking of would be Fritz Haber, he who
got the Nobel for converting hot air into Lunch, and who ventured out of
Berlin that year to supervise & measure his fumes on the Somme battlefield.)
Yours again, Les
>Dear Friends
>
>Obviously BSA measurement date from the Great War, not just before WWII as
>I suspected. Were the authors American -- most likely -- or French or
>even French Canadians? Was it a new way of calculating the dose of poison
>gas?
>
>Happy New Year!
>
>Lars
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Les Culank [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 29 December 2000 11:05
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Body surface area nomograms and formulae etc
>
>
>Not an answer to your question, but you may find interest & perhaps insight
>from reading the much-quoted Dubois+Dubois 1916 paper, Arch Intern Med vol
>17, p 863
>
>Seasonal good wishes,
>
>Les Culank
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