Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ulcer diets should contain orange juice. The juice contains citric acid only in harmless traces, but it might stimulate the stomach to produce a more than normal amount of hydrochloric acid. Because they feared hydrochloric acid, some doctors banned orange juice; others prescribed it to keep up the vitamin C intake. Ulcer patients without enough vitamin...
...because he gave his Negro co-comedian "Rochester" roles not humiliating to the Negro race.) Self-made, sloganeering Henry T. Ewald, president of Detroit's great Campbell-Ewald agency, got 1940"s gold medal for a distinguished career in advertising. For his work with sex hormones and vitamin K (which clots blood, stops hemorrhages), Biochemist Edward A. Doisy of St. Louis University's Medical School won the Willard Gibbs Medal for 1941. The Chicago Symphony Orchestral Association gave $500 to Carl Eppert, winner of its contest for U. S. composers, whose Two Symphonic Impressions set out to illustrate...
Last week it looked as though the problem of sulfa poisoning was solved. Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins reported a new, innocuous relative of sulfanilamide: sulfadiazine. A compound of sulfanilamide and part of vitamin B, the new drug, which is swallowed with water or injected, turns the same trick sulfanilamide does, plays no tricks on the patient...
Scientists Earl Ralph Norris and James Hauschildt, of the University of Washington, announced discovery of a new vitamin, found in yeast and liver, that prevents baldness. They dubbed it "inositol." The vitamin, said bald Dr. Norris worked beautifully on mice. But it killed them...
...Pneumonia and tuberculosis can be overcome, says Dr. Lim, only if troops are provided with adequate clothing and food. "One of the most serious of venereal diseases is gonorrheal ophthalmia [inflammation of the eyes]" due to lack of water, neglect of elementary personal hygiene (and vitamin A deficiency...