Abstract
Nutritional and environmental medicine—the study of the internal and external human milieus—takes on steadily greater importance as the detritus of our civilization accumulates, and our sins return to haunt us. Previously, we have discussed the concept of the nutrion-toxicity interface; this is emerging as the major medical battlefield of our times. Taken together, the editorials and papers that have appeared—many of them in this journal—on aspects of this topic amount to a developing body of work that maps out the history and pathology of this most genuine of twentieth century diseases.