Word: b2
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...years later, Dr. (Sc. D.) Williams, chemical director of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, has succeeded in synthesizing the curative substance, which is now called vitamin B2.* Upon advice of the American Medical Association, he re-named the vitamin thiamin because it contains sulfur (Greek theion). The American Chemical Society this spring awarded Dr. Williams its Willard Gibbs (highest) Medal. Science has just published a detailed article by him. "The Chemistry and Biological Significance of Thiamin." And next week Macmillan's will publish Vitamin B1 and its Use in Medicine ($5), which he wrote with Dr. Tom Douglas Spies...
...movements of a pigeon deprived of thiamin "consist in turning cart wheels and aimless floppings as if freshly decapitated." A human being, similarly starved of this nutritional necessity, may die of sudden heart failure. Less spectacular effects of B2 deficiency are, according to investigators, degeneration of the nervous system, enlargement of the heart, atrophy of muscles, loss of appetite, atony of the colon, stomach ulcers, loss of weight, failure to grow...
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...Lect. Hall Dr. Kraus, Sec. B1 New Lect. Hall Mr. Latham, Sec. B7 New Lect. Hall Mr. Leiffer, Sec. A7, B3, B5 Memorial Hall Mr. Marshall, Sec. A3, B10 Memorial Hall Mr. Mims, Sec. B9, Memorial Hall Mr. Pette, Sec. B3 Memorial Hall Dr. Shepard, Sec. B2 Memorial Hall Mr. Stilson, Sec. A4, B11 Memorial Hall Dr. Wild, Sec. A2 Memorial Hall Greek G (see footnote*) Dr. Finley, Sec. 2 Sever 26 Greek 8 Sever 36 History 11 Emerson D Mathematics A V (see footnote*) Dr. Hestenes, Sec. 1 Sever 18 Mr. Taylor, Sec. 2 Sever 14 Mr. Sewell...
...Lect. HallDr. Hindmarsh, Sec. A8 New Lect. HallDr. Kraus, Sec. B1 New Lect. HallMr. Latham, Sec. B7 New Lect. HallMr. Leiffer, Sec. A7, B3, B5 Memorial HallMr. Marshall, Sec. A3, B10 Memorial HallMr. Mims, Sec. B9, Memorial HallMr. Pette, Sec. B Memorial HallDr. Shepard, Sec. B2 Memorial HallMr. Stilson, Sec. A4, B11 Memorial HallDr. Wild, Sec. A2 Memorial HallGreek G (see footnote*)Dr. Finley, Sec. 2 Sever 26Greek 8 Sever 36History 11 Emerson DMathematics A V (see footnote*)Dr. Hestenes, Sec. 1 Sever 18Mr. Taylor, Sec. 2 Sever 14Mr. Sewell, Sec. 3 Sever 13Mathematics 13 Harvard 6Music 1c Music Bldg.Philosophy...