Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people too lazy to grow celtuce, botanists had a word of advice: eat weeds, some of which also run the vitamin gamut. Some of the more nutritious: dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, milkweed, marsh marigold, wild mustard, sorrel, purslane...
...Great-grandfather of all headaches is the torture of migraine, caused by distention of blood vessels in the scalp. Its victims are agonizingly sensitive to light and sound. Injections of vitamin BI sometimes give relief (TIME...
Shark-liver oil is the richest available source of concentrated vitamin A. * Nursing mothers need vitamin A to produce milk; babies and adolescents should have it to promote growth; pilots and plane spotters should have it to help prevent night blindness. Extra doses of vitamin A supplement the natural supplies in liver, leafy vegetables, yellow foods like butter, apricots and carrots...
Before the war, the U.S. imported much of its medical supply of vitamin A from Norway-72,000,000 lb. of cod-liver oil annually. But after the German invasion, drug companies had to scurry around for a new source. Result was a shark boom on the West Coast...
...piscivorous, tackle-snarling, bait-swallowing pest whose carcass brought only $10 a ton for fertilizer, though Chinese sometimes bought his fins for soup. But shrewd Fish Buyer Guaragnella had a hunch. Seeing a huge Galeorhinus liver, he had it tested, found it was 100 times as rich in vitamin A as cod liver...