Word: bran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common cause of deafness is deterioration of the eighth nerve, which leads to the ear. Five years ago, Dr. Selfridge noticed that most of his deaf patients ate very little food containing vitamin B, essential for healthy nerves. So he tried out vitamin B in tablets, rice bran and injections on over 100 cases of nerve deafness...
...Effect of Bran on Humans and the Effect of Humans on Bran is not yet a book, but it is the working title of a piece of research which early next year will be offered to the medical profession by one of its greatest bran enthusiasts. Its author is Dr. Bernard Fantus, professor of therapeutics of the University of Illinois' medical school. Eighteen years ago, before the profession in general had really begun its modern investigation of cathartics, the American Medical Association published a handbook on the subject written by Dr. Fantus. One of its chapters was on bran...
...after a year's intensive research he is preparing to publish his latest findings on bran. Part of his project consists of new experiments to observe the effects of bran on human beings. Last week in his cluttered laboratories in Chicago, he and his assistants were busy feeding bran to 100 volunteers, students of the medical school...
Each student is observed for three weeks. X-rays of the abdomen are made every few hours to follow the progress of food through the intestines. During the first week the volunteers live on bran-free diets, during the second week eat bran, during the third week again return to bran-free food...
...arising from the abnormal retention of fecal material in these portions of the bowel. There is no doubt as evidenced from practical experience that many such individuals who find themselves to have irregular and inadequate bowel movements can secure more regular and more satisfactory evacuations by the use of bran in their diet...