6 VITAMINES 



milk are the best treatment for rickets. We must 

 wait for further observations before deciding whether 

 the pathology of the disease is simply fat starvation, 

 or whether the patients have been deprived of a 

 necessary vitamine. 



REFERENCES.* 



Funk. — Brit. Med. Jour., 1913, i, p. 814 ; and articles in 



Journal of Physiology, 1911-1913. 

 Hopkins. — Proc. Royal Soc. Med., vol. vii, Nov., 1913 ; 



Therapeutical Section, p. i. 



♦ References at the end of chapters are not meant to be exhaus- 

 tive. Only a few accessible authorities are quoted, in some of 

 which a fuller bibliography will be found. 



