Wheat germ oil (vitamin E) therapy in obstetrics

Habitual Abortion and Stillbirth Syndrome

“…To these three admittedly striking analogies we have to add a fourth, the fact that in each case the exhibition of a preparation containing vitamin E (wheat-germ oil) at a sufficiently early stage breaks the sequence and, in a large proportion, enables the normal carrying of the pregnancy to full term. There is now considerable evidence in the literature (Vogt-Moller, 1931Juhasz-Schaffer, 1933;Watson and Tew, 1936) as to the efficacy of wheat-germ oil in habitual abortion and stillbirth in women, and Shutc (1937) has employed it with success in cases of accidental ante-partum bleeding.…”