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Also there is Funk & Wagnalls Co., publishers of The Literary Digest, The International Book Review, and The Standard Dictionary. Twelve years ago, Dr. Isaac K. Funk, senior partner, died. Last week, Adam Willis Wagnalls died...
...born 81 years ago in Lithopolis, Ohio. Aged 24, he founded and was pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Kansas City. After two years as clergyman, he served two in Atchison, Kan., as City Clerk; then went to Manhattan to enter the publishing business of Isaac Funk, a fellow alumnus of Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio...
...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...