The Parenteral Use of Vitamin Preparations

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IN 1943 the National Research Council1 published what it considered to be adequate daily allowances of the better known vitamins. Although the recommended amounts have been attacked as too large from the viewpoint of minimum requirements, these allowances, which admittedly include a factor of safety of at least 30 per cent,2 provide physicians with standards concerning the vitamins a normal person should ingest. The field of parenteral vitamin therapy, by contrast, appears to be one of hopeless confusion. Parenteral vitamin preparations of all types are, literally and figuratively, a drug on the market, but information concerning their proper use is . . .

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