| Autor: |
Baer, Samuel, Heine, William I. |
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JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association; March 1949, Vol. 139 Issue: 11 p733-733, 1p |
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To the Editor:—The recent editorial comment concerning vitamin E in The Journal (138: 1159 [Dec. 18] 1948) seems to us to warrant discussion. In the past year, there has been extensive publicity in the lay press advocating the use of vitamin E in various forms of heart disease. Enthusiastic recommendations in such periodicals as Coronet, the New York Times and other newspapers, and extensive advertising campaigns by less scrupulous drug companies, have made the public and even some physicians all too conscious of the supposed miracles to be expected from vitamin E. Hardly a week goes by now that some one does not attempt to acquaint us with the newer therapeutics. As far as we know, there has been no published confirmation of the work emanating from Canada. A critical analysis of the glowing reports published by Vogelsang, Shute and Shute certainly did not leave us with the same |
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