Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs. One, fed in a certain way, yields oxalic acid, basic chemical of the blueprint industry; on a different diet it produces the gluconic acid used in medicines. The versatile Clostridium acetobutylicum, on a single diet of corn mash, produces acetone for solvents, butanol for automobile lacquers, and riboflavin (Vitamin...
...Vitamin U is a name for a substance present in grass, hog stomach, peanuts and other ill-assorted foods. Lieut. Colonel Garnett Cheney of the Army Medical Corps thinks that stomach ulcers may come from lack of it. He once gave gastric ulcers to chicks with the help of a Uless diet...
...Cheney thinks months on canned rations may have caused the ulcers, but is not quite sure just what it was in his treatment that cured them: it might have been the vitamin U or it might have been the quantity of nourishing food...
...eats a third less than the U.S. soldier and can get along on much less than that. His usual ration in active theaters is about 3½ lbs. a day, mostly rice, generously supplemented with vitamin pills...
...request of the Quartermaster General's Office, Drs. Julian Meade Ruffin and David Cayer conducted a month-long study of vitamin reactions on healthy people. Two hundred medical students and technicians at Duke University School of Medicine were given the same average American food; some took supplemental vitamins, some didn't. Result, for the vitamin eaters: "no demonstrable beneficial effect...