MEDICAL SCIENCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 5

MEDICAL SCIENCE

LINKING-UP ORGANISATIONS BRITAIN A DOMINIONS. STUDY OF T.B. * MEASLES. [By Cabls — Pres. Assn. — Copyright.) (Received 6, 9.25 a.m.) London Feb. 5. Following the steady progress in linking up research organisations in Britain with those in the Dominions and India, the Medical Research Council last year extended the process to the colonies, protectorates and mandated territories. It is hoped the result will be a veritable Imperial Research Service. Commenting on the subject, the Council in the annual report, points out that there is probably more tuberculosis and measles in the tropics than in England and those diseases may perhaps be better studied overseas than at home, just ns the control of purely tropical disease may spring from clues discovered in some northern laboratory, ft becomes clearer every year that medical science is one and indivisible, whether in temperate or tropical climates, consequently research should be done wherever the best opportunity offers —(A.P.A. and “Sun” cable).

ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF VITAMIN.

In response to a request from the Empire Marketing Board, which is financing the work for five years, in® Medical Research Council has anang. ed a compreliensive investigation under the general direction of Proles sor Harden, of the Lister institute, into the vitamin contents of fruit, vegetables and daily products, and the effects of the different methods of preservation and transport of these foods. The council lengthily reviews the progress towards artificial vitamin production, and points out that the national needs of vitamin can be met from liver fat utilised with butter and margarine, and in other ways the Home supply can readily be supplemented, if necessary, from Empire products. ft has been found tnat the vitamin content of fat from ini ported New Zealand liver is the same as from the liver of Honie-killeo animals (A.P.A. and “Sun” cable.)