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THESE charts should prove of utility to those engaged in lecturing to students, or to other audiences not likely to be adversely affected by somewhat lurid colour illustrations of patients suffering from deficiency diseases. The colours applied on the first chart to common food stuffs and their packages also tend rather to the melodramatic, but in all cases the articles represented, like the deficiency diseases, are reasonably recognisable. In both charts a certain amount of accuracy has necessarily been sacrificed to the process of generalisation, for example, in ignoring the complexity of vitamin B, failing to distinguish between carotene and vitamin A, using beriberi as the sole illustration of vitamin B deficiency, and overlooking the presence of vitamin C in fresh meat. Nevertheless, provided the charts are used as convenient illustrative summaries by speakers and lecturers already conversant with the subject, these minor deficiencies, and the fact that they will tend to get further out of date in detail, need do no more than partly discount their undoubted value.
Philip's Vitamin Charts.
40 in. × 30 in. Chart No. 1: Vitamin Values of Foods. Chart No. 2: Diseases resulting from a Lack of Vitamins. (London: George Philip and Son, Ltd.; Liverpool: Philip, Son and Nephew, Ltd., 1932.) Mounted on tanjib, with rollers, 8s. 6d. net each.
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B., A. Philip's Vitamin Charts. Nature 132, 300 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132300b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132300b0