Work on vitamines, the myster ious substances which seem indispensable to healthy growth in ani mals and man, has\assumed an on-irely new and remarkable aspect if the claims put forward by four Japanese bio-chemists are substan-
Some of the best scientific brains in all countries have during the les ars been intensively occupied with ihe' stady of vitamines, the deteethan of their presence of absence in Geodstafls, and the consequent effect of diets rich or deficient in them en flyman and animal organisms. tral of these vitamines have area been' located, but until now they] had. not been obtainable in a pure state from the substances contain-them.
Tt is known, even to the lay public, that codcliver cil contains two vitamines, "A" and recently been established here and America, is replaceable by ult Cilet light, Absence. of this vi Taming or of sufficient light, ox Of] both, causes rickets. The absehe vitamine "A" causes n certain tye disease in intents, which may fend to blindness, end increases the susceptibility of all beings to many diseases.
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