The Problem of Vitamin A Deficiency
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In recent years it has become increasingly year that vitamin A deficiency is very common ,n India. The most important result of vitamin A deficiency is blindness produced by xerophthalmia. Ophthalmologists state that there are at least two million blind persons in this country, and a large proportion of this blindness could have been prevented by the timely administration of products rich in vitamin A. The editor will never forget the day when in a certain town in western India on one day at one clinic he saw
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دوره 79 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1944