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the other hand, the demand for vegetables poor in 

 chlorophyll, such as cabbage and cauliflower, is not 

 greater in Geneva than elsewhere in Switzerland. 

 When the Genevese emigrate they invariably miss 

 this abundance of green stuff. Maillart advises the 

 daily use of green legumes, not only for the anemic 

 and dyspeptic, but for the healthy as well. Chloro- 

 phyll has been given as such to the anemic, but 

 doubtless cannot replace the fresh vegetables. The 

 author does not allude to the value of tinned beans 

 and peas in this connection, but it is evident that 

 from the dietetic standpoint they cannot replace 

 the fresh articles." Editorial, Medical Record, July 

 29, 1916. 



My experiments which have, thus far, led to few 

 definite conclusions, convince me, first of all, that 

 many green-plant tinctures possess activities not 

 found in the parallel dried-plant tinctures; second, 

 that many plants devoid of chemical proximates 

 may possess physiologic ones inherent in the vital 

 constitution of the plant itself; that chlorophyll 

 and the chromo-proteins have, with the vitamines, 

 a place in the treatment of deficiency diseases; and 

 that, injected into the tissues and the blood, these 

 and other plant principles will produce results that 

 will bring plant remedies prominently to the fore 

 again. 



I have administered various tinctures that carry 

 much chlorophyll and possess little drug activity, 

 such as the tincture of pussy willow buds, grass, 

 etc., as a tonic in anemia; but results are not yet 

 ripe for any report or estimate thereon therapeutic- 

 ally. 



