An Estimate OF THE ANTISCORBUTIC VALUE OF MILK IN INFANT FEEDING.

The Diet Factor in Pellagra

“…In none of the communities receiving the diets tabulated above was either beri-beri or scurvy (with the exception of pellagrous groups A and B, diets 12 and 13, among whom scurvy was frequent) noticed, and although, as Miss Chick (1918) has shown, the occurrence of the anti-neuritic vitamine in a particular foodstuff is no measure of its anti-scorbutic properties and vice versa, the fact that neither of these vitamines was deficient makes the absence of a hypothetical anti-pellagrous vitamine at least improbable.…”

Report on the Present State of Knowledge Concerning Accessory Food Factors (Vitamines).

“…Large quantities of fresh raw cow's milk, 100 c.c. daily and over, are required if scurvy is to be prevented by its agency alone (Chick, Hume and Skelton, 74,75). In case of raw meat juice a daily ration of 20 c.c.…”

The Anti-Scorbutic Value of Cow's Milk

“…The main scheme was planned in order to obtain a comparison between the anti-scorbutic values of a number of foodstuffs, in response to war-time requirements, both civil and military, within the British Empire. Some of the preliminary results have already been published [Chick and Hume 1917;Chick, Hume and Skelton 1918] owing to urgent practical need for their application on active service and at home, and it was intended that a detailed report of the whole work should appear later, when the investigation was complete.…”