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...Isoniazid, wonder drug of 1952 against TB, may set off inflammation of the peripheral nerves, causing phantom sensations, numbness, burning pain and weakness. Unless caught early and treated with vitamin B6, this neuritis becomes permanent...
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...British Medical Journal, Dr. Victor P. Wordsworth reported that B-6 can also cure a much more common complaint: an overdose of alcohol. "A typical case," wrote Wordsworth, "was a woman of 45, brought in singing, swearing and staggering." She was given a 100-mg. hypodermic shot of B6. "The results were far more dramatic than I anticipated . . . Three minutes [later] she became quiet, apologized for the trouble she had caused us, and asserted she felt quite sober. She was able to walk across the room perfectly steadily...
Every lesson of the war, said Doolittle, had demonstrated the primary importance of air power. "The Navy had the transport to make the invasion of Japan possible; the ground forces had the power to make it successful; and the B6-29s made it unnecessary." Alabama's Senator Hill was so struck by this statement that he had Doolittle repeat...
...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...