Word: funk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutch scientist named Eijkman discovered that fowls contract a certain disease like beriberi if fed upon polished rice; that they can be cured by feeding them the part of the rice grain removed in polishing. In 1911 Casimir Funk, a Pole, proposed the name vitamine for this essential substance, whatever it was. Since that time vitamin has followed vitamin in quick succession?mainly discovered in U. S. laboratories. The orthodox three are "Fat-soluble A," "Water-soluble B," and "Water-soluble C." Then. there is Vitamin X," the reproductive vitamin. And lately many investigators have been working...
...Funk and Dubin showed that the yeast-stimulating power might be merely accidentally associated with Vitamin B. When an extract rich in B is shaken with Fuller's earth all its anti-neuritic power (power to cure beriberi, the chief characteristic of Vitamin B) is removed, though it continues to stimulate yeast. Funk therefore proposed that Vitamin B was really two vitamins?B, the anti-neuritic, and D, the yeast-stimulating. Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, one of the pioneer American investigators of vitamins, has also used the term Vitamin D for a factor present...
...layman who wants to know what it is all about can find several admirable recent books on the subject, including Dr. Eddy's own The Vitamine Manual Funk's The Vitamines, McCollum's The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition (all more or less ex parte for their own theories) ; Harrow's Vitamines: Essential Food Factors and Sherman and Smith's The Vitamins. There is an up-to-date chapter by Eddy in Caldwell and Slosson's Science Remaking the World...
...summary: Harvard 1927 Choate Eby, Carden, Thomas, r.f. l.g., Tracy Eaton, l.f. r.g., Maher Leekley, de Ravignon, McCrum, c. c., Brown. Morrison Hesse, Lightbourn, r.g. l.f., Fullmer, Raymond Malick, l.g. r.f., Mullaney, Funk...
Petroleum producers and refiners are beginning to recover somewhat from their blue funk of recent months, and to foresee the day, not far distant, when the heavy stocks of crude oil now accumulated through overproduction can be materially decreased. Oil shares on the New York Stock Exchange have experienced a general recovery, and the price of crude petroleum in several fields is likewise showing a rising tendency...