RT Journal
T1 FUrther facts regarding antiscorbutics
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD March 8
VO 72
IS 10
SP 728
OP 729
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610100036017
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610100036017
AB Scurvy, a disease which once represented a menace of serious moment to large numbers of persons at certain seasons and under certain conditions, when "fresh" foods were not available in sufficient variety or abundance, has returned into prominence in recent years. Experience has shown that while the heating of milk for infant feeding may remove undesirable bacterial dangers from this essential food, it is liable at the same time to destroy certain undefined properties of the diet, in the absence of which scorbutic symptoms arise. Furthermore, under the conditions of food supply enforced in some of the theaters of war, the medical officers have also found themselves confronted with scurvy, both among the fighting units and among the inhabitants of devastated areas.Quite aside from all theories as to the etiology of the disease, experience has demonstrated effective methods for the cure or the prevention of scurvy. In this country