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REPORT OF TEN CASES

FRANK D. CARROLL, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1936;16(6):919-926.

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That so-called alcoholic polyneuritis and the alcoholic type of pellagra are deficiency diseases is now commonly accepted. A review of all the many studies which tend to prove this is not warranted here, but the evidence may be briefly abstracted as follows:

Shattuck¹ in 1928 and Minot² in 1929 suggested that avitaminosis might be an important factor in the etiology of alcoholic polyneuritis, because of the similarity of this disease to beriberi.

Wechsler³ in 1930 and 1933 reported cases of polyneuritis in patients taking an inadequate diet. The polyneuritis was greatly benefited by the proper diet.

Minot, Straus and Cobb⁴ found that almost all their patients with this condition had been on a deficient diet. They stated that "dietary deficiency, probably especially the lack of vitamin B₁, plays an important rôle in the production of `alcoholic' neuritis."

Spies and De Wolf⁵ allowed ten . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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NEW YORK

From the Institute of Ophthalmology, the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

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