The Etiology of Green Diarrhœa of Infants: The Deficiency Factor
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111 25 per cent, of cases may be due to excess of Proteins in the food. Not only this?irregularity in the time and duration of the feeds and sometimes uncleanly habits of the mother, also act as contributory factors. But in niy opinion, based on some recent investigations 011 youngrabbits there is another paramount factor in the etiology of the disease: this is deficiency of the growthproducing and antirachitic vitamins A and D.
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