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The Effects Produced by Decreasing the Calcium and Phosphorus Intake on Calcium and Phosphorus Absorption and Deposition and on Various Bodily Constituents of the Rat

Description: Summary of a report that studied the effects of lowering the calcium and phosphorus intake of albino rats one week after they were weaned. They discovered that the amounts of calcium and phosphorus were lowered however they did keep appearing even when the bare minimum was used. This in turn affected the wet weight, dry weight, ash and calcium and phosphorus levels in the rats' bones.
Date: August 10, 1940
Creator: Bachmann, G.; Haldi, J.; Wynn, W. & Ensor, C.
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

General Considerations

Description: Experimental report written by an unknown scientist done on lab rats in order to test the Emulsol Corporation's "solvit" product. The tester has come to the conclusion that "solvit" is not dangerous and does not have any harmful consequences. Included are two tables documenting the results of the experiment on the rats.
Date: 1939-01-16/1939-09-30
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

[Letter from Albert K. Epstein to Dr. Meyer Bodansky - December 30, 1940]

Description: Letter from Albert K. Epstein to Dr. Bodansky regarding his feeding experiments on animals using emargol. He also advises that Dr. Bodansky summarize the report and send a copy of the report to Dr. Calvary, Mr. McCabe, Mr. Green and the rest of the Emulsol Corporation. He also discusses the absorption of emargol, which is derived from melted stearic acid, in animal feeding experiments.
Date: December 30, 1940
Creator: Epstein, Albert K.
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

[Letter from Benjamin R. Harris to Dr. Meyer Bodansky - December 4, 1940]

Description: Letter from Benjamin R. Harris to Dr. Bodansky, giving a brief description of the conference between him and Dr. Calvary, who discussed the purpose of feeding tests at high levels which is to study whether a substance is toxic or not. If the substance turns out to be toxic, it then goes into long-term testing to study for any chronic effects. If the substance is not toxic, it proceeds to a feeding test. The letter goes on to discuss how Dr. Calvary was unreasonable when it came to helping the E… more
Date: December 4, 1940
Creator: Harris, Benjamin R.
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

[Letter from Meyer Bodansky to Albert K. Epstein - December 2, 1940]

Description: Letter from Dr. Bodansky to Albert K. Epstein concerning the continued results of the feeding experiments based on the "chovis" chemical from The Emulsol Corporation. He also requests more sodium sulfo-acetate, monostearine sodium sulfo-acetate and other compounds for continuing his experiments.
Date: December 2, 1940
Creator: Bodansky, Meyer, 1896-1941
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

[Letter from Warren M. Cox, Jr. to Dr. Meyer Bodansky - December 13, 1940]

Description: Letter from Warren M. Cox, Jr. to Dr. Meyer Bodansky concerning some articles about the effects of vitamin D dosages on calcium and phosphorus levels that Dr. Bodansky had written him about recently. Cox goes on to criticize various other studies that have overdosed the rats used in their experiments so the results may be skewed. He includes his own experimental results conducted on rats on the effects of vitamin D on their bodies and briefly discusses the results.
Date: December 13, 1940
Creator: Cox, Warren M., Jr.
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT
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[News Clip: Animal-Rights]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 10, 1990, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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