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IN the Medical Research Council's Monograph ” Vitamins: A Survey of Present Knowledge” (1932) it is pointed out that in Nature, rickets in rabbits is probably unknown, but can be easily produced under laboratory conditions. Furthermore, we can state that under normal conditions of management, the ordinary tame rabbit, as kept in hutches, is also free from the disorder. At this centre, about two thousand or more tame rabbits have been bred, and only three cases of rickets have been seen in the normal stock in nine years; two were in large varieties and one in a medium.
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” Rex-Furred Rabbits”, Bull. 73, Ministry of Agriculture, 1934.
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WILSON, W. Incidence of Rickets in Rabbits. Nature 136, 434 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136434a0
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