CONTENTS 5 



Meat 262 



Table showing the vitamine content of the most frequently used 

 foodstuffs 263 



PART III 



THE HUMAN AVITAMINOSES CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE VITAMINES 



PLAT A R6LE 



Chapter I. Beriberi 275 



Mode of occurrence of and diets leading to beriberi 280 



Symptomatology and types of beriberi 282 



The sensory, motor form 283 



The dry, atrophic form 287 



The wet, atrophic form 287 



Epidemic dropsy 288 



The pernicious, acute form 289 



Infantile beriberi 290 



Pathology 291 



General 291 



Blood 293 



Cerebrospinal fluid 293 



Urine " 293 



Therapy 293 



General 293 



Infantile 294 



Ship beriberi 294 



Relationship between beriberi and scurvy 295 



Chapter II. Scurvy 297 



Mode of development 300 



Symptomatology and progress of scurvy 303 



Infantile scurvy 306 



Diagnosis 307 



Hematology 308 



Metabolism experiments 308 



Pathology 308 



Barlow's disease 309 



Therapy 311 



Chapter III. Rickets 312 



Occurrence 313 



Symptomatology and diagnosis 315 



Pathological anatomy and chemical pathology of rickets 315 



Metabolism 317 



Therapy and therapeutic effect on metabolism 220 



Etiology 323 



Vitamine etiology of rickets 324 



