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THE VITAMINS IN MEDICINE Kinfant Rachitique de 8 ans. Paris 1852. Frontispies THE VITAMINS IN MEDICINE by FRANKLIN BICKNELL, D.M., x.R.cP. and FREDERICK PRESCOTT, M.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.LC., M.R.CS. Clinical Research Director, The Wellcome Foundation, London SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED ¢ LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN - MEDICAL BOOKS - LTD 1946 FIRST PUBLISHED, DECEMBER 1942 SECOND EDITION, JANUARY 1946 calor dang Library WESTERN SECTION. THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS Printed in Great Britain by the Whitefriars Press Ltd.. London and Tonbridge. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Since the first edition of this book appeared further advances in our knowledge of the vitamins have been made, especially concerning the vitamin B complex and riboflavin, the chapters on which have been largely rewritten and expanded. The other chapters have required less drastic alterations to bring them up to date. A short chapter has been added on the essential unsaturated fatty acids and minor fat-soluble vitamins. ‘The tables giving the vitamin content of foods have also been revised, References to original papers now number nearly 4,500 and the number of illu. trations has been increased from 120 to 208. We are grateful to those who have offered helpful suggestions and criticisms, and to those who have kindly given permission to reproduce original illustrations. We have been asked for an author index but we regretfully decided that the advantages of this were outweighed by the increase this would mean in the size of the book—such an index would contain some twelve thousand names and some thirty thousand page references. It is a pleasure again to acknowledge the sympathetic assistance given to us by Messrs. William Heinemann, Dr. J. J. Abraham and Mr. L. B. Cavender. Mr. G. F. Home, Librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine, and his staff have also given us most valuable help. FRANKLIN BICKNELL, 14, Wimpole Street, London. FREDERICK PRESCOTT, June, 1945. Wellcome Research Institution, London.
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