“…During recent years many reports have been published suggesting that high doses of vitamin B,, alone, administered orally, can produce a satisfactory effect on pernicious anemia (3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,15,16,17,18,19,23,24,25,26,27). However, other investigators have not studied quantitatively how pernicious anemia patients absorb vitamin B,, from the intestine without the mediation of intrinsic factor (IF), nor have they studied the absorption process in cases of pernicious anemia with an acquired resistance to IF preparations or in other types of B1, deficiency.…”