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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 College of Surgeons, that vitamin C, obtained from oranges and other citrus fruits, increases the ability of the body to produce fibrous tissue in scar areas. Dr. Thienes added that vegetables vegeta-bles produce vitamin K, which prevents pre-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 prepare pre-pare the ordinary patient fur the operation. op-eration. In an emergency, however, he said, the vitamins were injected into the veins. ., . |