SCURVY 73 



Improvement was noticeable in eighteen hours, 

 and the child rapidly progressed to complete re- 

 covery. In five days he had taken the equivalent 

 of the juice of forty-two lemons without the slightest 

 disturbance of digestion. 



Although the distribution of the antiscorbutic 

 accessory is now becoming well loiown and the 

 serious character of the effects produced by its 

 absence from the diet are well established and 

 familiar, little progress has been made in the 

 elucidation of the nature of this mysterious prin- 

 ciple or of the mode in which it works. These 

 points remain for future investigation, but, thanks 

 to the pioneer work of Hoist and Frolich and to 

 its subsequent development in this country and 

 America, we have now sufficient information to 

 enable us to prevent the appearance of scurvy as 

 a disease either in adults or children, and it rests 

 with us to see that this knowledge is effectively 

 applied. 



