VITAMIN A
VALUABLE ANTISEPTIC? SAVING LIVES OF MOTHERS CAPETOWN, July 27. Tests which suggest that a means has been found lor reducing the appallingly high mortality among mothers in child birth were described oy Professor L Mellaiiby, at the Congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, to-day. In his' discussion of vitamines, Pro fessor Mellanby described important experiments, which would be shortly completed, that might prove vitamin A to be a valuable antiseptic. Whereas before the experiment, 22 patients suffering from puerperal septicaemia out of 24 died, seven out of eight cases where vitamin A was administered were discharged cured. "Vitamin A possesses," he submitted, "not only defensive action, but offensive action, having the quality of attacking and defeating agents which otherwise would attack the nervous system and eventually destroy it." Professor Mellanby also described re markable results ot bis wife's expert ments with teeth, showing that by varying the quantity of vitamin D in diet perfection and imperfection of tee.h could also be varied. The congress concluded its Capetown session to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17028, 13 August 1929, Page 7
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