Word: vitaminally
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...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
Deficiency. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Bernado Arroyo decided to kill herself, swallowed some pills, was rushed to the hospital, had her stomach pumped, learned she had taken vitamin tablets...
...disease seems to strike hardest at the healthiest; because children with vitamin deficiencies seem to resist infection, doctors surmise that the polio virus does not thrive on undernourished body cells...
...biggest discovery, for which he received a medal in 1939 from the American College of Physicians: nicotinic acid (part of B-2 vitamin) cures pellagra, a common affliction among poor Southerners who live on fatback and corn pone...
...spadework. Many of his discoveries have been anticipated by other researchers, who concede that he has a happy "faculty of extending the observations" of other workers, that he fights hard, for his ideas. A few years ago he tangled with official medicine, whose therapeutic policy was a single vitamin for a single deficiency. Spies insisted that deficiency diseases were best treated by vitamin complexes. Doctors now admit that Tom Spies was right...