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Following his discovery of vitamine as the preventative substance to beri - beri, Funk had outlined a theory of "avitaminoses" as the responsible cause of several other types of diseases, including scurvy, rickets, pellagra, and beri-beri.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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The idea of "avitaminoses" or vitamine deficiency as the cause of a disease of a specific nature was set forth in detail by Funk in his book
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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Their composition is generally similar to the preventive treatment of avitaminoses and has no contra-indication.
Chapter 4 1993
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Thus the successful combating of certain disturbances in the activities of the organs of internal secretion, as also of the deficiency diseases, or avitaminoses, has been a direct result of the increase in our knowledge of the nature of these afflictions.
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