Word: amino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amount of protein in Johnson's blood fell from a normal 6.5% to 3.2%. To overcome this loss, he was fed the equivalent of three to five pounds of meat a day. Besides his regular meals, he got amino acids (milk protein) intravenously, was fed a special soup made from ground meat, eggs and milk by stomach tube. One of the chief medical advances that emerged from the treatment was a method of measuring how much nitrogen a severely burned patient needs...
...Except for vitamins A and D, which are not manufactured chemically, are sold only as concentrates from fish-liver oils. * The five: biotin, choline, inositol, para-amino-benzoic acid, folic acid...
...growth. Consuming the pseudo-vitamin instead of the real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so that the blood's white corpuscles can easily destroy their limited numbers. How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino-benzoic acid...
Martin's audacious theory (already tested with rats and chicks) will be tested later this month on a volunteer group of Sing Sing convicts, who are now guinea-pigging the darkening effects of a B vitamin (para-amino-benzoic acid) on grey hair (TIME...
...However, several biochemists last week reported that prematurely grey hair can be warded off and even darkened again by para-amino-benzoic acid, a member of the vitamin B complex...