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WHILE the chemical nature of the six known vitamins remains obscure, recent advances in knowledge have brought us vera much nearer to understanding that of one of the namely, the antirachitic vitamin D. This has been brought about through the work of Rosenheim, Webster, Drummond, Heilbron, Windaus, some of whom have now shown cenclusively that vitamin D may be produced in a highly concentrated form from a pure crystalline substance, ergosterol, merely by acting upon it with sunlight or the radiation from a mercury-vapour lamp. This discovery is of great practical as well as scientific importance.
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The Antirachitic Vitamin D. Nature 120, 955 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120955a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120955a0