Ascorbic acid as the antiscorbutic factor

Abstract

IT is proposed in this short communication to describe some experiments dealing with the antiscorbutic activity of a number of specimens of ascorbic acid (hexuronic acid [Szent-Gydrgyi, 1928]), its oxidation products and ascorbic acid regenerated from one of the oxidation derivatives. We are indebted to Messrs Burroughs, Weilcome and Co. for the gift of preparations 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 made in the experimental laboratories of the Weilcome Chemical Works and to Prof.