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1 From the Pharmacological Laboratory, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
The toxicity of sodium tartrate was most marked on a diet of oats, hay and cabbage. Diets rich in sugar were efficacious in decreasing toxicity, the effect being most pronounced on a diet of young carrots. A marked increase of resistance to tartrates was also observed on a diet of carrot leaves.
The favorable effects of some diets on the toxicity of tartrates might be due to several factors, among them inhibition of bacterial activity in the intestine, vitamines, or unknown constituents that might be present in some diets.
Submitted on December 3, 1917