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SUPERSALESMAN Dudley J. Le-Blanc, concocter of the leeringly ballyhooed patent medicine, Hadacol (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951), is open for business again with a new vitamin-and-alcohol cure-all he calls Karyon ($1.25 for a 7-oz bottle). Compared to bad-tasting Hadacol, says Medicine Man LeBlanc, "this has a very classy taste. We've flavored it with lemon extract...
...none were rehearsed, and all of them, except for the commercials (for American Bakeries Co.), were written by Amy. To keep her weight down, Amy lived on orange juice, water and buttermilk during the shooting; to counter the hot lights on the set, she took 50,000 units of vitamin A each day; to avoid disconcerting her audience by flashes from the metal inlays in her teeth, she had them all replaced with plastic...
...Lack of vitamin C was suggested by Dr. Carl T. Javert, of Cornell University Medical College, as a common factor in the inability of some women to carry babies to term. Of 100 he tested, 91 had babies after taking (among other treatments) five times the normal quota of vitamin C-four big glasses of orange juice a day, plus a hesperidin supplement...
...Rushed off to the prison hospital, he died some 40 minutes later. What had happened? On the face of it, nothing. Gaspare had brewed his own and his father's coffee as he did every morning. As usual, he had stirred into his own cup a spoonful of vitamin preparation. The medicine was not even new; he had already taken two doses from the bottle. Yet scarcely had Pisciotta downed the coffee when he was seized with the violent cramps that led to his death soon afterward. "Cardiac paralysis," was the prison doctor's first hesitant diagnosis...
...millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from] pine needles and pine cones. So I used to cook them in a big kettle, and all the prisoners' were given a glass of that concoction to drink every night. [It] was not enough to cure well-developed scurvy...