Word: b1
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin B1 ] -may have a rough exterior, but clearly conceals beneath it a heart of ascorbic acid...
...original research theses. Another remedy would be to tone up the tutorial system so that everyone, whether on Plan A or Plan B, would have to write at least one paper a year on a subject which would require analysis of source material. At present some tutors demand b1-weekly essays while others see their tutees no more often than twice a term. It is still possible to spend four years here without writing a single paper, whether for tutorial or for courses, and to bull through the blue books on hot air and a good vocabulary...
...Vitamin B1 (thiamin): for beriberi, anorexia, certain heart disturbances, inadequate lactation, nerve diseases of alcoholism, facial neuralgia, cirrhosis of the liver, sciatica...