Word: b1
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humans, the most baffling virus is that of poliomyelitis. It has been noted for years that the disease seems to attack better-nourished children. In mice experiments, if the animals' diet was deficient in thiamin (vitamin B1), the incubation period was prolonged, and the paralysis and mortality rates were cut down. It was also found that if thiamin was added to the diet of infected animals, the polio often developed quickly into paralysis. But the picture was not all dark. In many cases, vitamins proved to be a shield against disease. One dramatic example: pigeons deprived of vitamin...
...Eder was not sure why fleas will not bite the B1 people: "Apparently fleas, like birds, smell their food before they...
Medical Care. About 100,000 treatments have been given Saipan's civilians by Army and Navy doctors and their assistants since D-plus-five. The "Midtown Pharmacy" still treats about 1,200 cases each day. Chief ailment: malnutrition, for which vitamin B1 injections are given in severe cases. Other maladies : diarrhea, worms, beriberi...
Sample items: B2 tablets came down from $3.25 to $1.39 per 100; B1 tablets were cut from...
...into an "emergency" sideboard drawer and carried to wicker cots and baskets in Heanor's nursing home. Three-pound MacDonald, the last to arrive, died in his sixth day. His brother and sisters seemed to be doing well on a diet of milk, water, glucose, Vitamins K and B1...