Description | Stanton has seen in the medical press that Mellanby intends to deliver a lecture on 'Vitamins and Health'. Refers Mellanby to his and Fraser's paper on beriberi in The Lancet, 1910. They demonstrated that minute traces in the diet had an impact on a healthy metabolism, something that Frederick Gowland Hopkins had 'prophecied' in 1906. He does not believe that anyone is trying to be unfair, but notes that the MRC report could be more historically accurate. He states that the publication of their paper was supressed by the authorities on the advice of an eminent consultant and that they were instructed to make no more experiments such as those described. |