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To the Editor:— In the admirable expose of the therapeutic use of vitamin B 1 in polyneuritis and cardiovascular conditions, Maurice B. Strauss (The Journal, March 26, p. 953) justly emphasizes that striking as the results of vitamin B 1 therapy are in the cardiovascular disturbances arising from a deficiency of vitamin B 1 , no effects whatever are to be expected in other types of heart disease, with or without edema, in the edema of pregnancy toxemias, nephrosis and the like. It may not be amiss to issue a word of caution with regard to the indiscriminate use of vitamin B 1 which is in vogue now, being advocated for a nearly endless variety of conditions. I am referring chiefly to intravenous injections of vitamin B 1 ; it has been shown (Narat, J. K., and Loef, J. A.: Effects of Vitamin B 1 Concentrate, Arch. Int. Med. 60 :449 [Sept.]
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