RIBOFLAVIN
DIETARY SOURCES AND REQUIREMENTS
- HENRY C. SHERMAN, Ph.D., D.Sc.;
- CAROLINE SHERMAN LANFORD, Ph.D.
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At the time of the preceding symposium in 1932, the terms vitamin B2 and G were used synonymously by Sure1 as standing for the more heat stable part of the vitamin B complex; and Underhill2 wrote of vitamin G deficiency as "intimately associated with the complex syndrome of symptoms included under the term pellagra." At the time of the present writing (the summer of 1937) the evidence appears conclusive that there are at least three relatively heat stable substances in the vitamin B complex: (1) riboflavin; (2) vitamin B6; and (3) another substance which perhaps may be considered P-P or the Goldberger pellagra-preventive substance, which may or may not be the same as the substance which prevents blacktongue in dogs. (It is also held by some careful students that
