Word: thiamin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment, Dr. Palmer injects large amounts of thiamin chloride (synthetic B 1 into his patients' muscles every day for four weeks, until they have had a huge quantity of the substance. After that, injections are given three times a week for a fortnight, then once or twice a week for several months. In addition, patients are given large amounts of capsules and syrup containing the other B vitamins (nicotinic acid and riboflavin), as well as vitamins...
...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...
Crystalline thiamin, which is vitamin BI, together with iron and nicotinic acid, will be generally restored to white flour by millers this month. Cost: two-tenths of a cent per pound loaf. The British Government ordered thiamin into bakers' recipes in July 1940. But Britons eat much more bread than Americans, get a more useful dose of B1 to buck up their war-strained health...
...Vitamin B1 (thiamin): for beriberi, anorexia, certain heart disturbances, inadequate lactation, nerve diseases of alcoholism, facial neuralgia, cirrhosis of the liver, sciatica...