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Theobald Palm and His Remarkable Observation: How the Sunshine Vitamin Came to Be Recognized
The seminal discovery that sunlight was important in the prevention of nutritional rickets was made in 1890 by Theobald A. Palm, a medical missionary who contrasted the prevalence of rickets in northern European urban areas with similar areas in Japan and other tropical countries. He surmised that e...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22347617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu4010042 |