Show Daily Health Service Ex Experiments Show Relation of Vitamin It to Re Reproduction By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of ot the American I Medical Association tion and of Byrd the Health Magazine The vitamins proceed from A to E. E Sometimes vitamin B is divided up into nto two vitamins which are called vitamin F and vitamin G. G Most people people peo peo- pie know something about the results re- re suits of the deficiency of the vitamins A B C and D in the form of at blindness blindness blindness blind blind- ness and pellagra scurvy scurvy vy and rickets according to which the he vitamins happen to be absent Few people realize what has been teamed learned regarding vi vitamin tam hi E. E In case this vitamin is kept absent from rom the diets of oC animals they develop an incapability to reproduce In the male the germinal cells degenerate completely In the female the change does not affect the tissues but does affect the developing embryo or the new progeny t App Apparently this vitamin can be stored in the body for considerable periods of ot time If It this were not the case there would be serious interference interfere ence with the continued reproduction of various animal species While the absence of any vitamin entirely from tram the diet may result in the appearance of specific processes of degeneration and changes of importance im in certain tissues there are also changes s that affect the tissues generally and which may thus lead to ill 11 health Animals that were kept on a general general genral gen gen- eral ral deficiency of vitamin E for long periods of time after birth were round found to present a poor appearance Their hair showed a lack of normal health Vitamin E is found Cound In hi relative abundance in lettuce spinach al al- tIata and watercress in the embryo of cereal and particularly in wheat germ oiL It is not not found found in cod liver oil which is in general a fairly rich source of oC vitamins A and D. D While much has been learned as to the nature of vitamin E it has not been isolated in pure form There have been a few instances in which women who have seemed to be unable un able to carry a child through h to birth have lave been apparently relieved of theIr heir difficulties by the administration tion of this vitamin in large amount during the period between n conception I period and birth |