498 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Rats, ability of, to choose between 

 two diets one that is adequate, 

 114 



ability of, to resume growth after 

 period of repression, 114 



food intake of, influence of vita- 

 mine B on, 119, 120 



food intake of, necessity of measur- 

 ing, 113, 114 



growth of, effect of lack of vitamine 

 A on, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122 



growth of, effect of lack of vita- 

 mine B on, 118, 119, 120, 121 



growth of, effect of small quantities 

 of milk on, 116 



normal growth curves of, compari- 

 son of, 122, 123, 124 



preparation of diets for,' 112, 113 



types of cages for, 111 



vitamine requirements of, 110, 114 



vitamine requirements of, on diets 

 rich in protein, fat starch and 

 sugar, 345, 346, 347 

 Reindeer, suspected avitaminosis in, 



142 



Rice, changes in, as result of milling, 

 248 



polished, ability of pigeons to live 

 on, 248 



phosphorus content as possible in- 

 dicator of nutritive value of, 

 31, 32 



removal from, on polishing, of sub- 

 stance protective against beri- 

 beri, 30 



Rice-polishings, active phosphorus- 

 free solution from, 168 



attempts to isolate vitamine B 

 from, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176 



"beriberi vitamine" from, 169 



chemical investigation of, 167 



fractionation of (diagram), 169 



nutritive value of, 248 



substances isolated from, analyses 



of, 170, 171 



Rickets, association of, with lack of 

 vitamine A, 323, 



association of, with lack of phos- 

 phorus, 323 



association of, with lack of sun- 

 light, 323 



association of, with a particular 

 dietary, 28 



chemical pathology of, 315, 316 



cod liver oil in, specificity of, 328, 

 329 



congenital, 313 



Czerny-Keller diet in, 320 



diagnosis of, 315 



dietetic theories with regard to, 

 324 



effects of, in later life, 314, 315 



etiology of, 323 



foodstuffs not protective against, 

 325 



foodstuffs protective against, 325 



in dogs, 137, 138 



in dogs, symptoms of, 138, 139, 

 140 



in breast-fed children, 314 



in lions, 136 



metabolism in, 317, 318, 319 



minimal quantitative factors in, 

 24 



occurrence of, 313 



pathological anatomy of, 315, 316 



prevalence of, 312, 313 



symptomatology of, 315 



therapy of, and its therapeutic 

 effect on metabolism, 320, 321, 

 322 



vitamine etiology of, 324, 325, 326, 

 327, 328 



X-ray in study of therapy of, 

 322, 323 



S 

 Salt mixture, of McCollum, 113 



Osborne-Mendel, 113 

 Schlatter's disease (late rickets), 314 

 Schwann's sheath, in beriberi, 292 

 Sciaria, vitamines in growth of, 84 

 Scoliosis, possible dietetic origin of, 

 381 



