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The guinea pigs represented in the graphs on the left received canned tomatoes 

 and thrived. Those on the right were not fed tomatoes and died of scurvy. 



tomatoes have been uniformly well tolerated throughout the sum- 

 mer by babies as young as one or two months of age, and we can 

 recommend this foodstuff as an economical and efficient anti- 

 scorbutic. 



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Preliminary observations on the value of raw and dried tomatoes 

 as antiscorbutic foods for guinea pigs. 



By Maurice H. Givens and Harry B. McClugage. 



[From the Department of Physiology, University of Rochester, 



Rochester, N. Y.] 



The external signs of the nutritional failure known as experi- 

 mental scurvy, which can be produced in young guinea pigs in 



