. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 23, 1922. THE M1UTISH BEE JOURNAL. 573 tire juice of Carrots (why not milk, if any- thing'/) because they are assumed to contain vitamins. Now, Dr. Walter Elliott, the Parliamentary representative of the Re- search (Vivisection) Defence Society, who, a year or two ago, spoke in the House with unbounded enthusiasm of the research on dogs connected with vitamins, has recently quite changed his opinion. Writing to the Manchester Guardian, .July 26, he says :— " Vitamins are the latest fashion in medi- cine. The Hailey Street special
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 23, 1922. THE M1UTISH BEE JOURNAL. 573 tire juice of Carrots (why not milk, if any- thing'/) because they are assumed to contain vitamins. Now, Dr. Walter Elliott, the Parliamentary representative of the Re- search (Vivisection) Defence Society, who, a year or two ago, spoke in the House with unbounded enthusiasm of the research on dogs connected with vitamins, has recently quite changed his opinion. Writing to the Manchester Guardian, .July 26, he says :— " Vitamins are the latest fashion in medi- cine. The Hailey Street specialist is as much subject to the latest fashions as any Parisian dressmaker, and doctors have attri- buted an altogether ridiculous importance to these substances. In particular the so-called antirachitic Vitamin A has shown a fatal fascination for all those whose minds turn naturally towards a demonological concep- tion of the art of healing. In this respect the Medical Research Council is by no means guiltless. The inevitable desire of a Govern- ment department to produce at any cost results which can be stated in an attractive manner in an annual report has led them into more than one cul-de-sac. " These substances, the ' accessory food factors,' received the name of ' vitamins,' and it is around their constitution and, in- deed, their actual existence, that controversy is acute to-day. " It must first be said that the existence of any actual substance corresponding to the name is a matter of pure theory. " Nobody lias at any time isolated any such concrete chemical substance. Neverthe- less, from the researches carried out by Hop- kins, Mellanby. Chick, and others in this country, and a host of workers in America whom we may exemplify by McCollun, it has been decided to assume the existence of three of these substances, called respectively Vitamin x\. Vitamin B, and Vitamin ; You will notice the word " assume " ! Would not carrot juice be like
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