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The Sheffield Experiment on the Vitamin C Requirement of Human Adults*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

H. A. Krebs
H. A. Krebs
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research in Cell Metabolism, Department of Biochemistry, University of Sheffield
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Lind Bicentenary Symposium
Information
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 1953 , pp. 237 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1953

Footnotes

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This is a summary of the main aspects of the trial conducted by the Vitamin C Subcommittee of the Accessory Food Factors Committee of the Medical Research Council. Members of the Committee were R. A. Peters (Chairman), K. H. Coward, H. A. Krebs, L. W. Mapson, L. G. Parsons, B. S. Platt, J. C. Spence, J. R. P. O'Brien (Secretary). Others taking part were A. E. Barnes, W. Bartley, I. M. Frankau, G. A. Higgins, E. M. Hume, J. Pemberton, G. L. Roberts, H. Scarborough, H. R. Vickers, J. Waterlow and W. J. W. Ferguson. A full account of the trial is published by H.M. Stationery Office (Bartley, Krebs & O'Brien, I953). This Report includes reproductions of colour photographs of the pathological conditions seen during the trial. (See also Medical Research Council: Vitamin C Subcommittee of the Accessory Food Factors Committee, 1948.)

The colour plates I to VI illustrate some of the clinical findings made during the trial.

The author is indebted to the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office for permission to produce this summary and for the use of illustrations taken from the Report.

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