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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...
After these symptoms had developed, Dr. Patton gave each of the sick dogs a small injection of pure vitamin B1 "The effect," he reported, "was . . . spectacular. [The injection] transformed a racing, howling maniac, or one in appalling convulsions, frothing at the mouth and screeching piteously, into a quiet though nervous animal within four hours, and in 48 hours into a normal, healthy, playful puppy...
...food largely disappeared from the . . . dining-room table, and urban dog owners turned to commercial foods for the sustenance of their pets. ..." If owners do not feed their dogs meat, said Dr. Patton, to avoid fits they should make sure that the commercial food they use contains vitamin B1...