Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repeated disappointments in cure-alls has never dulled the native U.S. penchant for medicine fads. Last week's vitamin news indicated another disillusionment...
...from the University of Iceland in 1938 and an M.P.H. from Vanderbilt University in 1943. Before he had been reported lost at sea on November 17, Dr. Olasen had completed his requirements for the Harvard degree. Working in the special field of Nutrition, he wrote a thesis entitled, "Vitamin A and Cancer...
...Doisy, tall, meticulous, 50-year-old head of the Biochemistry Department at St. Louis University, was already famous when he began working on vitamin K: he had isolated theelin, a female sex hormone in 1929, and a similar hormone in 1936 (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936). In 1939 he announced that he had analyzed two substances giving the same activity as vitamin K, and recently he patented a method of synthesizing.the vitamin. Synthetic vitamin K, called Menadione (fluid injections or tablets), has saved many lives...
...injections and pills are not needed by healthy people. Extra vitamin K is needed when disease cuts off bile flow and impairs intestinal absorption. It is also given to women a few days before childbirth and to newborn babies...
Solution. In Los Angeles, Alvin Meyers used up his last coupons for ten gallons of gas, drove nowhere with it because his four-year-old son filled up the rest of the tank with water and his father's bottle of vitamin pills...