INFANTILE SCURVY

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Although we possess in orange juice a specific for infantile scurvy, it is well worth while to look about for other therapeutic agents which are potent in this disturbance. This is desirable from several points of view. In the first place, orange juice cannot be considered an ideal antiscorbutic food, as it is expensive and under certain circumstances difficult to procure, but more especially because it cannot well be embodied in the food. As a result of its having to be prepared and given separately, it is frequently forgotten by the physician or by the nurse, with the result that we encounter cases of latent or subacute scurvy which have come about through this oversight. Furthermore, as long as the true nature of the antiscorbutic vitamin is unknown, we shall gain valuable knowledge of the essential chemical substance which forms the basis of this disorder by ascertaining substances that do