The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-08-17
MIAMINE SECRET
SOUGHT IN CORN
Experiments With Growing Grain
Indicate ch!orophylI Is Nee
essary to Production.
COD LIVER IS RICHEST SOURCE
Experts Recommend Cod Liver OIL al
Part Of Daily Diet 81 Infants, Be-
cause Of Its Power 10 Pre-
g vent and Cure Tickets.

New York.-TiH analysis of corr @
the seed and at various stages of
growth, In the course of experiments
by DIR. Benjamin Harrow and others
at the College Of Physicians and Sur
geons, has indicated that the vita
mines are either produced by the sun
as chlorophyl OF that the production
Of vitamines depends on chlorophyll.
'"The seed corn does not gain in it's
vttamine content when IT sprouts" he
said. '"The vitamines seem to be the
same in number. But as it shoots up
and begins to turn green. the vitamines
increase rapidly"
So far it Is believed that vita
mines Of all types are produced origt-
nally by plants alone, and are not to
be found in soil or non-organic com
pounds or in living things except as
the result of vegetable food which con-
tains them. This ID hard to reconcile
with the fact that the greatest known
concentration Of vitamines is in the
liver Of the COD which lives on an
exclusive fish diet. CLAIMS and other
sea animals on which the cod lives.
however, probably obtain from e
vegetation the ~vitanlines which they
pass on to the cod. Much of this veg
citation, however, receives little or no
sunlight on account OF its depth, so
that the different types of vitamines
may be- originated In different meth
DDS. F.%
While codliver oil Is the richest Of
all things in Vitamine A and is rec
commended by Doctor Harrow and his
associates as a part OF the daily diet
of infants, because Of its power to
prevent and cure ricketts,, Doctor Har-
row, DR.. Alfred r. Hess and other
workers on this subject are doubtful
whether it is the utamine which cures
the ricketts,.
Cause Of Rickets Obscure.
1.-The doubt is due to the fact that
ricketts, occurs among infants on a wide
Of diets, including many diets
well supplied with Vitamine A." ha
said. 1T has also been shown that
the disease is caused by some disturb
ance In the proportion Of calcium and
PHOSPHORUS In the food of the infants.
These are the two principal bone-mak
ers and there Is a shortage of phos-
phorus In the case Of a child with
ricketts,. The sunlight seems to pro-
duce this phosphorus. Cod-liver oil in
variably restores the balance and
cures the disease. But it Is very like
" that there Is some other factor In
the cod-liver oil rather than Vitamina
A, which does this. In our laboratory
and In many others researches are be-
ing made to identify this agent in cod
liver oil. There are various substances
In the oil which are little understood
at present. It may prove to be Vita
mine A or q new vitamine, but 1t may
be something of another nature.
ION the other hand, 1t Is known
that cod4iver Oil is a perfect specific
against tickets, which In unfortunate
" q very prevalent disease. Orange
Juice is given to infants as part Of
their daily diet for the prevention q
scurvy, and codliver oil should be
given to every infant In the same
way. It is unpleasant 10 adults, but
infants become exceedingly fond Of
It"
DR.. Oasimir Funk, who discovered
the vitamines, denied that there was
any advantage In a large. consumption
Of vitamines, and said that the public
was not benefited by the propaganda
to sell certain foods on the grounds
that they were rich In these factors.
MAN cannot live without a mini
mum supply; but the average Ameri.
can gets plenty Of all types In tho
average diet" he said.
100000 Would Eliminate Il.
On the value Of codliver oil against
ricketts,, Doctor Hess wrote:
There r approximately $4,000
children In New York city between tha
ages of three and fifteen months, tho
period of greatest susceptibility TO
rickets. If we estimate generously
that the families of onethird to ons.
quarter OF these children are unable
to purchase cod-liver oil, and If We
agree that the development of ricketts,
may be prevented by giving q tea.
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