Boric compounds as food preservatives
1926-06 1926 1920s 8 pages - 6 - aware of any comprehensive research during the last twenty years. Professor W.E. Dixon, of Cambridge, in a letter to the "Times", February, 1925, mentioned that "many investigations had been made on healthy young adults." It would...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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June 1926
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| Summary: | 1926-06
1926
1920s
8 pages
- 6 - aware of any comprehensive research during the last twenty years. Professor W.E. Dixon, of Cambridge, in a letter to the "Times", February, 1925, mentioned that "many investigations had been made on healthy young adults." It would be worth while getting all the references to these experiments from Professor Dixon. The Abstracts of the Chemical Society 1906-1926. which cover all the loading Biochemical and Physiological Journals, have been consulted, as well as the "Lancet", British Medical Journal and Biochemical Journal of the last six years, and no instance has been found of any evidence given to prove or disprove whether boric compounds used as a preservative have a deleterious effect on the human system. No one would doubt that a large number of clinic records show that in specific cases doctors' patients had suffered in one way or another during periods when they were taking small doses of boric compounds. The value of such observations is considerable - but opinions founded on them cannot be considered conclusive. The basis of the discrimination against boric acid as compared with sulphurous acid and benzoic acid is, according to Professor Gowland Korkins, that "boric acid is not promptly excreted and accumulates in the organs." This is the opinion of many doctors, but nevertheless medical evidence on this appears to be somewhat contradictory; thus the following are culled from letters published in "The Times" in 1925:- Dr. Tunicliffe "has been on the look-out for disease due to boric acid for the last twenty-five years, and has never seen a case." Dr. Robert Hutchinson says "Chronic boric acid poisoning is a myth " Mr, Frank Kidd, M.Ch., F.R.C.S. , who has had long experience prescribing boric acid for urinary complaints says "Five grains of boric acid every six hours are well tolerated," for long periods, and that he "cannot believe that the small dose we at present absorb in food can do anything but good."
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