By Carlos Issac Reed, Harold Carl Struck, Irving Ellhu Steck
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The chemistry of vitamin D and related compounds; The various forms of vitamin D and their relative potency; Assay methods and chemical tests for vitamin D; Vitamin D in rickets; The physiology of vitamin D; Relation of vitamin D to the parathyroid glands; The influence of vitamin D on energy metabolism; The toxic effects of vitamin D; The relation of vitamin D to resistance to infection; Effects of vitamin D on mineral metabolism; Effects of vitamin D on blood constituents; Vitamin D in the treatment of arthrits; Other therapeutic applications of vitamin D.