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To the Editor: —InThe Journal, Nov. 29, 1913, p. 2001, S. T. A. refers to the newspaper report of the death of a woman from poisoning by eating chestnuts, and asks for an explanation as to how chestnuts can be poisonous. Aside from your answer that the matter was under investigation by the Bureau of Plant Industry, is it not possible that this patient was a subject of diabetes and that she died from coma from overindulgence in this article of diet? In the dietary for diabetes all forms of nuts are allowed except chestnuts, and I have strictly forbidden them to patients suffering from this disease, although diabetic patients have an inordinate craving for chestnuts at this season of the year. A Note on the Use of Ninhydrin as a Test for Peptone, etc. To the Editor:—Ninhydrin works best in a strictly neutral medium. Slight acidity or alkalinity
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