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Herbert McLean Evans, discoverer of vitamin E Sc.D...
When other researchers showed that nicotinic acid or niacin (one of the B vitamins) was effective against an animal disease resembling pellagra, Dr. Spies seized on the clue, soon proved that simply adding niacin to the diet would go far to cure many cases. (It has since been shown that an amino acid, tryptophane, found in protein foods, is also essential in pellagra prevention.) But Experimenter Spies was convinced that where there was one vitamin deficiency, there were likely to be others. He advocated supplements of several vitamins, was sharply criticized for "shotgun" treatment, has been fully vindicated by later...
Magic Through Vitamins. Dr. Spies did much to prove the effectiveness of folic acid, another vitamin, in treating several forms of anemia, including early cases of pernicious anemia. Next, at the University of Havana's Calixto Garcia Hospital, he gave folic acid to victims of tropical sprue, a wasting, debilitating deficiency disease of which anemia is one symptom. Again, patients got better as though by magic. The burden of Spies's current work in Havana and San Juan: to defeat tropical sprue by prevention...
Cokes and vitamin pills. At the end, the Florence audience cheered through 17 curtain calls. After two years of mediocre Musicales, including a somewhat ragged Ring cycle last year, the May Festival had recouped its artistic losses, again ranked with the best in Europe. Said Florence's Mayor Giorgio La Pira, brushing aside news that two scheduled operas would have to be canceled because the Musicale had run out of credit: "We have no money now, but we have music...
...anguished adolescent who feels disfigured by the pimples of acne, many doctors merely give a reassuring "You'll grow out of it," and let it go at that. At the other extreme, dermatologists have tried every conceivable remedy-vitamin A, vaccines, soaps, yeast, antiseptics, astringents, diets, hormones, ultraviolet and X rays, warnings against "picking." Despite such efforts, acne continues to afflict vast numbers of adolescents (variously estimated as 50% to 90%), many with skin-scarring, soul-searing severity...