Conclusion
A state of ill health is often the result of a faulty diet but even in the presence of a normal diet, deficiency states may develop. The awareness of avitaminosis will often direct the internist to recognize the outspoken clinical states and to suspect the pre-clinical stages of vitamin deficiencies.
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Read before the Gastro-Intestinal Department, Beth-El Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., February 21, 1938.
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Vorhaus, M.G. Vitamins in relation to gastro-intestinal diseases. American Journal of Digestive Diseases 5, 405–408 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02996564
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