VITAMIN IN TISSUES
P I-l OTO G.[! APH IC PR( )C ESS CANBERRA, Man’ll 26. Vitamin C. the absence of which from diet causes scurvy, can be pjiolo graphed in b-odv tissues by means of si. special staining process which has been evolved by Mr Geoffrey Bourne a research officer sif. the Institute of Anatomy, Canberra. That vitanrrn, lack of which almost prevented the voyage °f Vasco da Gama- round the Capo of Good Hope to India, when 100 of his 160 men jied of scurvy, can bo made avlifjcalJy and sold like other preparations. The process Joiphotographing tlm v'tamin was discussed. bv Sir John Mackenzie in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Koval Society oi Australia when ho fJisK?|us*s«l iliet and, its el feet: on normal health and the production of disease. A photograph of tissue showing vitamin C was screened.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12521, 5 April 1935, Page 3
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