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Word: acidizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reichstein of Zurich, is now available to physicians in cheap form. Last week Modern Medicine announced that University of Chicago's Dr. Siegfried Maurer and associates* had given "restful and apparently normal sleep" to 60 healthy but insomniac patients by feeding them one to three grams of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) daily. One group, which was insane, required a larger dose. As soon as the patients achieved a normal sleep, vitamin treatment was discontinued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin News | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Nicotinic acid, a distant relative (about second cousin once removed) of tobacco's nicotine, is found in yeast, wheat germ and liver. When considerable quantities were fed to some 300 patients with pellagra, their sores healed, their cramps disappeared. Even patients who were violently insane dramatically regained their wits within 48 hours. In a few days they were able to eat pellagra-preventing foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pellagra Cure | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...NICOTINE ACID IN THE TREATMENT OF PELLAGRA, by Dr. Clarence Nall Bogart of Forrest City, Ark.; THE TREATMENT OF SUBCLINICAL AND CLASSIC PELLAGRA, by Drs. Tom Douglas Spies, William Bennett Bean of Cincinnati, Ohio, & Dr. Robert Edwards Stone of Birmingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pellagra Cure | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...their acid comments, Low's cartoons have usually had an owlish, good-natured air that kept them from being really bitter. He presented people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Low on Chamberlain | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...vitamin B complex" contains at least 15 different entities, including B1 (prevents beri-beri); Bu (called riboflavin, prevents cataracts) ; nicotinic acid (prevents pellagra); a factor which prevents grey hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B1 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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