Cod liver oil showed a gain of 42.4 gm. over the normal, while with the same rats Hagee’s Cordial showed a loss of 60.2 gm. Cod liver oil showed a gain of 45.5 gm. over the normal, while with the same rats Vinol showed a net loss of 43.5 gm. Cod liver oil showed a gain of 19.5 gm. over the normal, while with the same rats Wampole’s Preparation showed a loss of 31.6 gm. Cod liver oil showed a gain of 45.4 gm. over the normal, while with the same rats Waterbury’s Compound showed a net loss of 31.7 gm.
Not only did cod liver oil show a marked superiority as a source of nutriment over Hagee’s Cordial, Vinol, Wampole’s Preparation and Waterbury’s Compound, but it also showed a remarkable reconstructive and recuperative power in its ability to enable rats to gain weight rapidly and steadily after having suffered from a deficiency in nutriment when fed the four preparations named above.—(Abbreviated from The Journal A. M. A., Feb. 20, 1915.)
DIABETIC FOODS OFFERED FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES
A Preliminary Report
John Phillips Street, M.S.
Chemist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Recent references in The Journal to gluten flours and certain other foods offered for the use of diabetics suggest that a preliminary report of an investigation just about completed in my laboratory by Prof. L. B. Mendel and myself might be useful to many diabetics and to physicians who are called on to arrange their dietaries.