Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since early February Lou has taken huge quantities of Vitamin E, by mouth and injection. It is still too soon for any perceptible results, but the doctors are cheerful, for five other patients have visibly improved, after long months of treatment...
...vitamin virtues were first reported in the Lancet in January by Dr. Franklin Bicknell of London's Farringdon Dispensary. Last week Neurologist Israel Spanier Wechsler of Mt. Sinai Hospital told a group of noted colleagues that, working independently of Dr. Bicknell, he had cured one man of the supposedly hopeless disease, had got a bedridden woman to walking about her house, had "improved" three other patients...
Colds. Medical science has no preventive nor cure for the common cold, says Dr. Aaron. Only thing to do when you catch cold: go home and wait for it to blow over. Special vaccines may help break up colds, will not forestall them. Nor will Vitamin A or ultraviolet treatments provide "cold-defense." Most nose drops must be used with great care, for they often injure delicate membranes, spread infection to the ears. Only safe remedy for stuffiness, says Dr. Aaron, is neo-synephrine snuffed up the nose, or ephedrine in salt solution, not oil. Oil drops may dribble into...
...yeast fad could not last forever. Many a yeast-eater turned to vitamin pills, easier to take and just as reassuring. Many another just quit. And Standard Brands' profits began to depend more and more on coffee, tea, gelatin, other items in its varied line, all with narrower profit margins than yeast...
Standard care of gingivitis may consist of X-rays. Vitamin C, liver extracts, antiseptic applications. It often requires the better part of a year. Last week Dr. Daniel Eleazar Ziskin of Columbia University's Dental School reported an effective, new treatment for gingivitis: sex hormone massage...