Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sufferers from acne (disfiguring skin disorder) may soon become conscious of Dr. Jon V. Straumfjord of Astoria, Ore. Nine out of ten people break out with acne during adolescence or later. Dr. Straumfjord is convinced that he can help most such sufferers, by large doses (100,000 units) of vitamin A every day. In Northwest Medicine he gives the results of his treatment of a sample group of 100 patients. They took the vitamin from three months to a year before they looked any better, but out of the 100 "79 became free, or nearly free, from the eruption...
...else may be wrong with a patient, acne always develops in a skin coarsened by "follicular hyper-keratosis"-i.e., hardening and coarsening of the tiny skin follicles (pores). This condition of the follicles, says he, "differs in no important way from the descriptions of the follicular lesions attributed to vitamin A deficiency"; in fact, he thinks the two conditions are identical...
...Vitamin pills and water will be distributed...
...Fruit on the shaded side of a tree has less vitamin C than that on the sunny side...
Concludes Dr. Reid: For good vitamin C values the harvesting of vegetables should not be done before mid-forenoon, say 10 o'clock, after a spell of clear weather; after a cloudy spell, not till late...