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...Average Man." No man was better equipped than Roger Williams to show what vitamins could do. The younger (58) brother of Robert Runnels Williams of B1 and beriberi fame (TIME, April 30), he identified pantothenic acid and helped to discover folic acid, two of the vitamins in the B complex, did pioneering work on several of the others. Along the way, Roger Williams became distressed by the way science tends to deal with the nonexistent "average man," plumped for a science of "humanics" in which differences among men, rather than similarities, would be emphasized...
...Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...
...drug, called Teropterin, was developed by the Lederle Laboratories, and was first tried on animals and one patient at Mt. Sinai Hospital (TIME, Sept. 15). It is a vitaminlike chemical derived from folic acid...
Spies, with associates at San Juan's School of Tropical Medicine, thinks that the efficacy of folic acid also proves decisively that sprue (symptoms: diarrhea, mouth sores, lassitude) is a result of poor diet rather than a contagious disease, as some doctors have insisted. Folic acid, Spies announced earlier this year in the A.M.A. Journal, is also a remedy for all but a few rare kinds of anemia, causing red blood cells to pour into the blood in striking numbers...
...uncertain: whether folic acid also halts the nerve degeneration common in anemia...