LANCET, cilt.353, sa.9162, ss.1415, 1999 (SCI-Expanded)
Sum rules relating the masses of ground-state baryons and mesons are obtained in a constituent quark model. The interaction is assumed to be independent of quark spins except for a spin-dependent part that can be treated as a perturbation. Where data are available, the sum rules agree with experiment to better than 1\%.