Word: inositol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coffee is mildly hostile to the vitamins biotin and inositol-but it would take more coffee than any human being could drink to produce a serious deficiency...
...Except for vitamins A and D, which are not manufactured chemically, are sold only as concentrates from fish-liver oils. * The five: biotin, choline, inositol, para-amino-benzoic acid, folic acid...
...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...
Scientists Earl Ralph Norris and James Hauschildt, of the University of Washington, announced discovery of a new vitamin, found in yeast and liver, that prevents baldness. They dubbed it "inositol." The vitamin, said bald Dr. Norris worked beautifully on mice. But it killed them...