“…Recently vitamin C has also been found to be deficient in patients with chronic alcoholism. Plaut 43 reported a low content in the blood and spinal fluid of a few patients, and Alexander and his associates 44 have studied 106 alcoholic addicts. The evidence is definite that vitamin C is at an abnormally low level (averaging about half the normal value) ; but whether or not this deficiency is important or incidental is not yet known, although scurvy is not uncommon in alcoholic addicts.…”
Section: Syncope Convulsions and Migrainementioning
“…Recently vitamin C has also been found to be deficient in patients with chronic alcoholism. Plaut 43 reported a low content in the blood and spinal fluid of a few patients, and Alexander and his associates 44 have studied 106 alcoholic addicts. The evidence is definite that vitamin C is at an abnormally low level (averaging about half the normal value) ; but whether or not this deficiency is important or incidental is not yet known, although scurvy is not uncommon in alcoholic addicts.…”
Section: Syncope Convulsions and Migrainementioning
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