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W. M. FOWLER, M.D.; ADELAIDE P. BARER, Ph.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1938;61(3):401-407.

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Many data have been accumulated on the iron requirements of normal and of pathologic subjects,¹ as well as on the amount of iron which is retained and utilized by patients with anemia of various types.² We have shown that patients with hypochromic anemia retain a large amount of iron but utilize only a relatively small percentage of that retained^2a and that the absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice interferes with the retention of dietary iron but has no effect when large doses of medicinal iron are administered.³ We have also shown that the degree of anemia which is present has no appreciable effect on the amount of iron retained.³ The effect of copper and of a liver fraction given in combination with the iron has also been studied,⁴ as well as the results obtained with variable amounts of iron.⁵ We wish . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IOWA CITY

From the Department of Internal Medicine, the State University of Iowa.

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Supported in part by a grant from Eli Lilly & Co.

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