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Effect of a Diet of Sweet Clover on the Calcium in the Blood Serum

C. Y. Cannon and Delbert Greenwood

Iowa State College
Brigham Young University

ABSTRACT

1. There was a decrease in the serum calcium of young rabbits fed on an exclusive diet of sweet clover meal plus distilled water, while it remained fairly constant when rabbits were fed alfalfa meal plus distilled water or alfalfa meal-oats-cabbage-lettuce diets. Upon the resumption of an alfalfa diet the serum calcium content of the blood returned to normal.
   
2. The decline in serum calcium brought about by sweet clover is probably linked with the failure of the blood to clot in "poisoning."
   
3. It is suggested that the loss of serum calcium in the blood might raise the surface tension of the blood to such a point that the blood platelets would fail to rupture thus interfering with the formation of thrombin.
   
4. Rabbits fed on the sweet clover increased their weight at a rate corresponding with those on the other diets.
   

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