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II. STUDIES DURING LACTATION

THEODORE HUNT INGALLS, M.D.; RUTH DRAPER, B.S.; HAROLD M. TEEL, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1938;56(5):1011-1019.

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In the preceding communication,¹ it has been shown that the fetus acts as a parasite on the mother for its vitamin C and that the requirement of the mother for this substance is therefore considerably increased during pregnancy. In this paper, we shall present data on the vitamin C content of breast milk and of maternal and infant blood plasma during the nursing period.

In 1936, several investigators reported on the vitamin C content of human milk. Kasahara and Kawashima's² values were between 4.2 and 5.6 mg. per hundred cubic centimeters, and Wachholder's³ averaged 4.4 mg. Stoerr⁴ reported an average of 3 mg. and found the figure slightly higher for colostrum. De Haas and Meulemans⁵ found the colostrum of native Indian and Chinese women to contain 5 mg. of ascorbic acid per hundred cubic centimeters, while milk sampled later in the puerperium contained about 4 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Harvard School of Public Health, the Boston Lying-in Hospital and the Children's Medical Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Footnotes
Read before the Society for Pediatric Research at Great Barrington, Mass., May 4, 1938.

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