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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1924, Page 2

INSULIN. LON I JON. dan. is. Tin* lirilisli producti>m • a insulin lor diabetes, is now enough. iho .Medical Research Council stale m ‘ h-*if report lor I!)i , published to-day. “not only to moot the home demand, hut also to allow a growing export to oilier parts of the Umpire, and to foreign countries where large-scale production ha-, not yet teen achieved. It is possible, and some trend iudgei think it probable (I he council adit), tlmt tie- production of insulin will he found hereafter to have had greater value for medicine as an instrument ot research work in physiology and biochemistry titan in it.-, immediate application to the relief of diabetes. The ’‘great nutritional value ol endliver oil ill the feeding of farm stock” has been shown in experiments carried out ai the National In-tiruL.- tor Dairy Research. Reading. And it i; nov, ivoarded as deiinitely proved that me vitamin, it cmitent ol the milk, can lie raised considerid.lv hv the administration of small doses of codiirer ml to milk-yielding cows, and this «Annul any undesiralile eifeet on the <|iialitv of the milk I at. Cnuirary to the hilherto-reeeited opinion that white bread is entirely devoid of vitamin IT. I>r tihuivs A. Hartwells "hits howu that white bread has much more vitamin L. content than has been generally thought. ami that the vitamin IT mute-lit ol white, (lour is hv no means negligible. Research on dental disease at St. Mart's Hospital, hotnlou. simwed that in aho ut one-third ol the teeth examined an organism, “apparently of a tvpe Hitherto undeset il>ed. has hr t n isolated. The name "Streptococcus inutans - ’ is proposed for it, and further work on this organism is living carried ]

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