IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
VITAMIN D ISOLATED. London, March 3. The Medical Research Council’s annual report announces that a. team of investigators, under Dr. Bourdillon, has succeeded in isolating a, substance known as “calciferol,” which is believed to be vitamin D in a pure state. “Weight for weight,” says the report, “it has 400,090 times the value of a good sample of cod-liver oil in preventing and curing rickets.. A single ounce of°the new substance, dissolved, could provide a necessary daily ration for the proper development and growth of more than 1,000,000 children.” The chairman of the council said the isolated substance was so active that it constituted a 'most notable advance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 9
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