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IN a recent issue of Science it is claimed by Drs. Samuel W. Clausen, Burtis B. Breeze, William S. Baum, Augusta B. McCoord and John O. Rydeen, of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, that taking alcohol raises the vitamin A content of the blood in men as well as dogs. ‘Before-and-after’ tests were made on ten persons taking alcohol in the form of mixed drinks as desired. In every case the amount of vitamin A in the blood was increased after the drinking. The increase was relatively slight in most cases but was remarkably large in one person who had a high level of vitamin A in his blood before the drinking. Night-blindness is one of the chief signs of lack of this vitamin, although it is required for health of other parts of the body besides the eyes, and for normal growth of children.
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Alcohol and Vitamin A. Nature 147, 323 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147323d0
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