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Show Vitamins in Oranges Help in Surgical Cases LOS ANGELES. Vitamins found in oranges and vegetables are playing play-ing a new part in surgical operations. opera-tions. "Administration of the proper vitamin vi-tamin doses before an operation is serving materially to reduce fatalities," fatali-ties," says Dr. Clinton H. Thienes, pharmacology professor of the University Uni-versity of Southern California. He told a meeting of the Southern South-ern California Chapter, American i College of Surgeons, that vitamin iC, obtained from oranges and other citrus fruits, increases the ability of the body to produce fibrous tissue i in scar areas. Dr. Thienes added that vegetables vegeta-bles produce vitamin K, which pre-j pre-j vents post-operative hemorrhage by inducing proper blood coagulation. Administration of these vitamins was necessary only in cases of persons per-sons showing a deficiency in them, he explained. A week's treatment, given through the mouth, would pre-i pre-i pare the ordinary patient for the op-! op-! eration. In an emergency, however, he said, the vitamins were injected into the veins. |
