Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like so many research triumphs, this one had been almost an accident. Thirteen years ago a London, Ont. obstetrician named Evan Vere Shute became interested in vitamin E, whose natural sources are in whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels. When a fellow member of his church-his only male patient-complained of tremendous heart pains, Shute put him experimentally on cold, pressed wheat-germ oil. For three months he got relief. When both patient and doctor ran out of funds, the treatment was abandoned...
...Evan Shute did not forget it. Last summer, when a colleague asked him to suggest a research project for a bright young medical student, Floyd Skelton, Shute suggested tests for the effectiveness of vitamin E against hemorrhage. At the University of Western Ontario Skelton set to work on his class-free Saturday afternoons, with a modest grant of $150 and laboratory privileges from his alma mater. He soon discovered that dogs given stiff jolts of vitamin E would not have hemorrhages...
Sherlock Holmes would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
...placed on an alcohol farm, or in a sanitarium or hospital. When an alcoholic's supply is abruptly stopped, sedatives are often necessary to relieve the shakes or jitters. He must learn the importance of eating; carry chocolate bars to nibble between meals, take heavy doses of vitamin...
...that time vitamin B was thought to be a single factor. Further research 'turned up at least ten factors, each good for a specific deficiency disease...