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...Stockholm last week a committee of Swedish doctors was deciding whether to give the 1937 Nobel Prize ($40,000) for Medicine to: 1) Biochemist Ibert Szent-Györgyi of the Hungarian University of Szeged who discovered that a certain acid (ascorbic) in the adrenal glands of healthy men and animals had the same beneficial effect as Vitamin C contained in oranges and lemons; 2) Biochemist Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham (England) University, who analyzed the chemical structures of Vitamin C and the ascorbic acid which Professor Szent-Györgyi isolated; or 3) Biochemist Paul Karrer of the University...
While the world of scholars waited, the Nobel Prize committee took a quick last look at the accomplishments of Albert Szent-Györgyi. Amiable son of a once wealthy Hungarian, son-in-law of a one-time Hungarian postmaster general, as thoroughly Hungarian as paprika, this Wartime Hungarian army medical officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with...
...studies Dr. Szent-Györgyi found that the adrenal glands secrete a substance, ascorbic acid, which he subsequently discovered to be the same thing as Vitamin C. To further these studies, Dr, Szent-Györgyi needed large quantities of ascorbic acid, and his pursuit of it took him to a half-dozen European universities and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, where Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall, isolator of thyroid hormone and analyzer of adrenal cortex hormone, provided him with a big stock of adrenals fresh from South St. Paul stockyards. He still was not able to get enough...
Scurvy was not brought into the laboratory until 1907 when Hoist and Frolich inflicted it on guinea pigs, tested the curative potency of vegetables. In 1932 Professor A. Szent-Gyorgyi found that hexuronic acid from adrenal glands had powerful antiscorbutic properties, and soon thereafter the name was changed to ascorbic acid and identified with Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter...
Professor Szent-Gyorgyi talked about Vitamin C last week, admitted that as a medicinal tool it was too new for fulsome claims. But its application was clearly not limited to scurvy, rare in modern civilization. With it he reported cures of pyorrhea, Addison's disease, such