Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

  • Edward Mellanby
Date:
1925
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Credit: Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    31 -- Table 12. No. of i Biet. Duration Weight. | CaO in Femur Shaft. --—--- Expt. Variable. of Expt. Initial. Final. Max. Percentage. 1 | Amount. Histology. ■- •--- gms. gms. gms. Dry. Fresh. | gms. 685 Cabbuge 33 1420 6400 6400 19-2 14-5 \ 1-07 Rickets 637 Carrot 33 1580 6980 6980 1 13-8 9-2 0-75 Bad rickets 638 Egg-yolk 33 900 6290 6460 ! 20-0 15-8 ! 1-35 Nearly I 1 1 normal Radiographs of these animals taken after 33 11 mental diets are represented in Figs 55 56 and 57 A-' these, 638 (egg yolk), Fig. 57, is normal; 635 (cabbie) ^ 5“! The0Pefll n ’ aud 637 (carrot)’ Fi§'' 56> ^vere rickets^ ess volk dffilv beSU S ?lt m a8Teement, the animal gettirm some The\XLhiIemeVVhdf,lly WaS n0t 80 effective as 1 y°lk of’egg! ri t | C t*C ®®ct of the carrot was small and did not prevent the development of this disease in a severe form . particularly difficult to extend these results from doo-s to other ammals. In spite of the thorough cooking, a gLt deal of the carrot eaten was undigested, and this also applief to the cabbaoe aHmentarv thwefore’ that> in those animals wh^ imentary tracts are better able to deal with £reen and othor more potentthItTstofaChtitiC f?0* of these foodstuffs would be case J „ • f ™terest> however, to note that, even in the 4™” “““,ite th' **■ »“»«* te »»« eZteor“,tiC5eCt,°f egg yolk is very P°tent in its curative r, n experimental rickets, as I showed in an earlier publication havtJ not testedSiSen e0nflrmed b7 Hess [8] on children. I nave not tested its anti-rachitic action relatively to the rickets pioducing effect of oatmeal, but the following experiment demon strates as does the above described Exp. 638, that from a preventive standpoint it can antagonize the action of bread. P (iv) Effect of Egg Yolk. Age at beginning of experiment: 8 weeks. General diet daily eaten included separated milk powder 15 o-ms 5 gt oSinoT1 30~15;; gms;>, Lnge 3 c.cms , Sst 8“s-. olive oil 10 c.ems., sodium chloride 1 gm. 604 ate this diet only.