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YOUNG rats of the Wistar Institute strain aged five to six weeks and weighing 70–100 gm. were fed on the Gillman diet1. This consisted of liberal quantities of a thick mealie-meal porridge and fermented cow's milk. Animals were killed after they had been on this diet for four and a half and six months. All, except two in the latter group, showed an abnormal bromsulphalein retention in the serum; but the serum proteins, thymol turbidity, thymol flocculation and colloidal gold tests were within normal limits.
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IRVING, J., SELZER, G. Effect of a South African Native Diet upon Rats. Nature 163, 677–678 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163677a0
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