TY  - JOUR
T1  - CUrrent comment
Y1  - 1939/04/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800150034014
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1462
EP  - 1462
VL  - 112
IS  - 15
N2  - AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
    In June of this year the American Ophthalmological Society will celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary. On June 7, 1864, this society, the first in the United States devoted exclusively to ophthalmology, was formed. That first meeting was held at the New York Eye Infirmary with eighteen in attendance from New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Poughkeepsie. The society has always stood for the highest ideals in practice of medicine. Its imminent anniversary celebration serves to emphasize the increasing maturity of American scientific medicine.EFFECTS OF VITAMIN B COMPLEX ON EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTHYROIDISM 
    The effect of crystalline thiamin chloride (vitamin B1 hydrochloride) and the vitamin B complex (yeast) on experimental hyperthyroidism was studied by Drill and Sherwood1 on rats fed various diets. The study was designed (1) to feed rats a synthetic diet containing sufficient amounts of yeast for growth, (2) to feed thyroid gland to rats receiving the same
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800150034014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800150034014
ER  -