Show doctors discover cause of lip lesions name coined for it in the future when baby refuses to eat her spinach mother may be heard warning her against the dangers of that Is if she can pronounce two doctors of the national insel tute ot of health drs W 11 sebrell and R E butler adopted the word which they admit Is unfortunate but the best one they could think of to describe the disease says the washington star they reported Is the cause of up lip lesions which had bad been marked in various parts of the world but the cause of which had bad never been determined the disease is due to the absence of riboflavin in the diet according to their experiments one of the vitamin B group riboflavin is widely distributed in nature in such foods as milk and other dairy products meat eggs and green leafy vegetables liver and dried brewers yeast also are good sources of the vitamin the effect of th elack of the vitamin on human beings was determined from an experiment in which IS 10 women were given a daily ration of cornmeal cow cowpeas peas lard casein flour white bread calcium carbonate tomato juice cod liver oil syrup and syrup of iodide or iron later the diet was supplemented by crystals containing sources ot of vitamin C and bl to make sure the patients suffering from any vitamin deficiency except riboflavin ten of the 18 women developed lesions in the lips in 04 94 to days daya after the beginning of the experiment in most of these cases the symptoms disappeared five to six days after the inclusion of the ribo flavin vitamin in their diet the doctors said that meeting the dally daily human requirement of riboflavin difficult A milligram of the vitamin Is all needed dally daily to forestall |