‘■ln the isolation of every vitamin carefully controlled animal expert nients have been a necessity,” said Dr J. Melville, of the Wheat Research In stitute, in an address upon vitamins at Canterbury College. “Without such control it is unlikely that any of these materials would have been discovered this century. I have no idea how many rats have been used in arriving at our present scanty knowledge, but I should say the number is well over a million and approaching the eight-figure mark.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 305, 21 September 1936, Page 8
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