Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Foxes built up the thinned-down Rupert with oats, alfalfa, linseed and soybean meal, vitamin D, wheat germ oil, etc. Rupert seemed in tiptop condition, but he still sired no calves...
...Glad Acres went $38,000 plus $3,000 for transportation and other costs. Saddened but not discouraged, Turner sent Rupert to Kansas State College, where he got the full treatment of modern veterinarian vitalizing. After seven months, Rupert returned to his home ranch, full of penicillin, assorted hormones and vitamin C. But he was still sterile...
...past ten years, Dr. Garnett Cheney of Stanford University's School of Medicine has been studying an anti-ulcer factor he tentatively calls vitamin U (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). Tests on patients have been encouraging; their ulcers got better when Dr. Cheney fed them on foods containing vitamin U, but he could not prove that U did the trick...
Cabbage, Dr. Cheney found, contained a lot of vitamin U, and seemed to keep guinea pigs from getting ulcers. In California Medicine, he reported results of a five-month test on 13 patients. He gave them a quart of cabbage juice a day, squeezed out by a juice presser from fresh raw cabbage. They also got a fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured...
...Vitamin U is also found in celery, unpasteurized milk, fresh greens, raw egg yolks, cereal grasses, certain animal and vegetable fats. Dr. Cheney says cautiously that his experiment is not final proof that vitamin U heals ulcers, but "indicates it may be the case...