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lactation, or to carry the animal over a period of subsistence upon 

 foods deficient in this vitamine. Animals kept under like condi- 

 tions upon the same diet deficient in fat soluble vitamine show- 

 different survival periods according as their previous diet was 

 rich or poor in this substance. Our results suggest that it may be 

 largely because of previous storage of this vitamine that adult 

 animals seem less dependent upon it than do young of the same 

 species. 



4. Heat Destruction of the Fat Soluble Vitamine. — Dry heating 

 at a temperature of ioo° C. with free access of air, only very slowly 

 destroyed fat soluble vitamine. The results thus far obtained 

 emphasize the importance of taking full account of the time as well 

 as the temperature of heating, and of the initial concentration of 

 the vitamine in the food, as well as of the opportunity for previous 

 storage of the vitamine by the test animal. 



Experiments upon these four problems are being continued. 



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A new diet for gastric ulcer. 



By Warren Coleman. 



[Department of Medicine, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College, New York City.] 



From the dietetic standpoint the two main indications for the 

 treatment of gastric ulcer are : 



1. To protect the ulcer from mechanical and chemical injury, 



and 



2. To maintain the nutrition of the patient at a level which will 

 favor the healing of the ulcer. 



In the author's opinion, none of the diets hitherto employed 

 in the treatment of gastric ulcer fulfills these indications: in none 

 of them do the therapeutic properties of food appear to have 

 received adequate consideration. In general, the frequent ad- 

 ministration of small or moderate quantities of milk constitutes 

 the basis of diets for gastric ulcer. Even admitting the economic 

 quality of the secretion called forth by milk, its hourly or two- 



