Word: elvehjem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Wisconsin's Conrad A. Elvehjem did another series of experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...
...Keynote of the meeting was sounded by Dr. Conrad Elvehjem of Wisconsin (originator of nicotinic-acid treatment for pellagra), who said: "Many of the deficiency diseases . . . are multiple deficiencies...
...Several scientists protested that the U.S. people are now becoming foolish vitamin cranks. Said Conrad Arnold Elvehjem of the University of Wisconsin: "The safest program ... is to rely upon the common foods we have been . . . eating rather than attempting the production of cheap, synthetic substitutes...