Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agricultural experiment station of Pennsylvania State College, veterinarians trussed up Jessie, two-year-old heifer, and plugged her as though she were a watermelon. Dr. S. L. Bechtel of the station had noted that Heifer Jessie's milk contained Vitamin B, although none of the fodder she ate carried any. The question whether Jessie manufactured her own Vitamin B was very important...
Stepp of Jena commended U. S. Experimenters Hess and Steenbock for their experiments in stimulating the production of vitamins in vegetable oils by means of the ultraviolet rays (artificial sunshine) of mercury lamps. . . . Too much vitamin-potent food might injure patients...
...Canned Vitamins. Dietitians believed heretofore that the canning of vitamin-bearing foods destroyed the vitamins? as did open cooking. Dr. Walter H. Eddy of Teachers' College, Manhattan, proved at least for Vitamin C (anti-scurvy), that oxidation makes useless this complex chemical. In ordinary cooking much oxygen reaches the food, in canning very little. Actually canned vegetables are more healthful than cooked fresh ones...
Into one of the vitamin-mongering sanitary lunchrooms which steward the middle classes of Kansas City, reeled last week a strapping street sheik with Gershwin tintinnabulations at his fingertips. "Want coffee!" he pleaded. "Want coffee for a buggy ride! Thanks for the coffee! 'Thanks for the buggy ride'! Gimme a vitamin now, dearie. Need all the vitamins you got. Need a vitamin to take on a buggy ride. 'Thanks for the buggy ride.' THANKS for the buggy vitamins! Oh, Oh, OH! 'I had a wonderful time! Wonderful treat! Juh-huh-hust to hear the patter of hor-sez feet! THANKS...
...Vitamin A helps young animals grow, keeps them from certain eye affections; its absence is a factor in rickets. Vitamin B stimulates the metabolic processes, especially those concerned in digestion and assimilation of food. Vitamin C prevents scurvy...