Word: vigneaud
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...become lousy. This condition never occurs with other vitamin deficiencies, so it is not related to general physical weakness. Doses of riboflavin quickly drive the lice away. Dr. Gyorgy hopes the treatment will soon be tried on human beings, for lice carry the germs of typhus. >Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell told how three groups of men in three separate laboratories recently turned up one of the original vitamin substances, biotin (recognized 40 years ago). Dr. du Vigneaud, who analyzed its structure, said that biotin is extremely powerful, very difficult to make. Only a few grams have been synthesized...