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Show New Test For For Vitamins Drs. Seymour Hutner and Herman Baker, of Pace University and the New Jersey Jer-sey Medical School, have developed a simple, cheap and accurate blood test which shows, within three days, whether a patient is deficient in eight essential vitamins. THE VITAMINS are thiamine, biotin, niacin, riboflavin, B-6, B-12, pantothenic pan-tothenic acid and folic acid. The new method, twenty years in the perfecting, .utilizes protoza to reflect deficiencies, and can be performed per-formed with standard laboratory labora-tory equipment in any hospital. hospi-tal. Such results have until now required at least 23 days, and since so many illnesses and diseases are caused by vitamin vi-tamin deficiencies, the new lest method is a major medical advance. |