A STUDY OF THE ETIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PELLAGRA AND PERNICIOUS ANEMIA

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Abstract
The gastric secre tions of 2 pellagra patients contained a substance acti vating ground beef, thus producing an antianemic factor capable of causing remissions in patients suffering from pernicious anemia. Since yeast has been shown to be of therapeutic usefulness in both diseases, it follows that the usual pellagrin probably acquires: his disease, at least in part, secondary to insufficient ingestion of food and that the usual pernicious anemia patient probably develops his disease because of a gastric dysfunction which prevents the utilization of the; intrinsic factor found in food.

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