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EVER since Prof. A. Szent-Györgyi suggested the possible identity of hexuronic acid1 with the ‘reducing principle’ present in all active antiscorbutic solutions, I have been experimenting at various periods in this connexion. These experiments led me to the conclusion that the likelihood of ‘hexuronic acid’ being identical with the antiscorbutic factor was small, but I much regret that owing to illness I am at the moment precluded from supplying from my experimental notes the relevant data which seem to me to justify this provisional conclusion. Moreover, in view of J. L. Svirbely and Prof. A. Szent-Györgyi's claims referred to in NATURE of April 16, my previous experimental work on the subject will have to be further amplified, and therefore I cannot now enter into a detailed discussion of the matter. It is my intention, however, to make in this note only one or two comments on Svirbely and Szent-Györgyi's results.
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A. Szent-Györgyi, Biochem. J., 22, 1387, 1928.
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ZILVA, S. Hexuronic Acid as the Antiscorbutic Factor. Nature 129, 690 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129690c0
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