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CLAUDE C. CODY, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1945;41(3):208-213.

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Recent investigations confirm the general rule of vitamin therapy, that a vitamin can relieve only those symptoms caused by its deficiency. The avitaminotic diseases are clinical entities with a definite pattern of symptoms and pathogenesis both in man and in laboratory animals. Experimentation with animals has been invaluable in demonstrating the significance of human symptoms, but the demonstration of a lesion in an acutely fulminating vitamin deficiency experimentally induced in the laboratory animal is not a scientific basis for the assumption of the existence of a similar condition in latent avitaminosis in man. Manifest avitaminotic diseases are rarely if ever encountered in otolaryngology; only the latent are seen. The difference between manifest and latent avitaminosis is that between a complete clinical picture and a picture of a few of its essential parts. The diagnosis is frequently difficult and uncertain even by the therapeutic test with the specific vitamin concerned. The . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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HOUSTON, TEXAS

Footnotes
Chairman's address delivered before the Section on Laryngology, Otology and Rhinology at the Ninety-Fourth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 15, 1944.

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