Cashew Fruit and Vitamin C

.luice to be 6 to 8 times stronger in vitamin-C content. I corresponded with the Director of the Nutrition Research Laboratories, Dr. W. R. Aykroyd of Coonoor, to whom I sent two parcels of cashew fruits and he was very kind to send me his result in the following reply:? ' The vitamin-C content of the sample of cashew fruits sent by you has been determined, the figure obtained being about 376 mg. per 100 c.cm. of juice. This is a high figure as compared with that given by the majority of fruits.' Knowing the above fact and also the common belief in South Kanara as regards the beneficial effect of the fruit in smallpox, I want to know whether there is any close dependence of smallpox on vitamin-C deficiency. No doubt an adequate supply of vitamin C plays an important part in the dietetic treatment of all fevers. But in smallpox, its epidemic constitution, the hemorrhagic variety, its severity during pregnancy and in the old?all these may depend upon the deficiency of vitamin C?seasonal as well as individual, if the common belief can be relied upon.