By W. J. McCormick, MD
Summary: Dr. McCormick looks at the relationship between vitamin C status in the body and lithogenesis—the formation of calculi, or stones, in an internal organ. "Clinical observations and laboratory experimentation by the author on the effect of administration of vitamin C in altering the physiochemical properties of the urine and other body fluids, principally in eliminating deposition of phosphates, has led to the hypothesis of C hypovitaminosis as the basic etiological factor in lithogenesis in general." Note: Dr. McCormick equates vitamin C with ascorbic acid, though the latter is just one of the many factors that form the true vitamin C complex. From the journal The Medical Record, 1946.
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