Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About 20% of all alcoholics who come to hospitals are afflicted with glossy, burning feet, paralyzed arms & legs. This disease, known as polyneuritis, is caused, not by alcohol, but by a vitamin deficiency -for heavy drinkers get their calories in liquor, usually lose their appetite for food. "The disease," say the authors, "never occurs in inebriates who are well-nourished. . . . It can be cured by adding vitamin B1 to the diet...
...scouts and women's services were sent on their finger-pricking harvest when British chemists found that rose hips are an absurdly rich source of vitamin C-400% richer than oranges (now rare as mangoes in Britain) and 300% richer than black currants (C-richest cultivated fruit). All this was reported in copies of Monthly Science News recently arrived in the U.S. from England...
Following antique herbals, many housewives concocted their own elixir of hips. Widespread result: they found themselves not only spooning out vitamin C to their bairns, but, as corks popped in pantries, indulging in a potent homebrew. Amused but impressed, one British medical journal observed: "We may even see hip syrup competing with orange juice after...
Martin's audacious theory (already tested with rats and chicks) will be tested later this month on a volunteer group of Sing Sing convicts, who are now guinea-pigging the darkening effects of a B vitamin (para-amino-benzoic acid) on grey hair (TIME...
...must have concern for children above all," Jones said, since it is among them that famine takes its greatest toll. Widespread rickets among European children is being combated with vitamin concentrates, formerly shipped in five gallon lots via clipper, and now obtained in Denmark...