AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: JAMES M. FAULKNER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Article1 June 1937AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTVITAMIN C AND INFECTION*JAMES M. FAULKNER, M.D., F.A.C.P., F. H. L. TAYLOR, PH.D.JAMES M. FAULKNER, M.D., F.A.C.P., F. H. L. TAYLOR, PH.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-12-1867 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptINTRODUCTIONThe conception that scurvy has an important relationship to infection is far from new. In fact, some of the earliest descriptions of scurvy bear witness to this relationship and account for the fact that scurvy was often considered an infectious disease. Echthius, whose comments on scurvy were published in 1585,1is referred to by James Lind2as follows: "Echthius seems to be the first who gave rise to the opinion of its being a contagious or infectiouslues. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Received for publication April 17, 1937.From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.The authors are indebted to Merck & Co. and to Hoffmann, La Roche & Co. for ascorbic acid used in this investigation. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDie Pathologie der Avitaminosen und HypervitaminosenDISTURBANCES OF METABOLISM OF DIETETIC ORIGINCalcium Ribonate and Vitamin C (Nu 240-10) in the Treatment of TuberculosisVitamins and the General PractitionerDer Einfluß von Vitaminen auf das Bakterienwachstum in vitroVariations in the concentration of ascorbic acid in the plasma of the newborn infantTHE VITAMIN C REQUIREMENT IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS*MARSHALL G. HALL, M.D., ROBERT C. DARLING, M.D., F. H. L. 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