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Paprika & Disguises. Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised...
...name compound E is no longer used because of confusion with the unrelated vitamin...
More specific treatments, which are sometimes effective but should be overseen by a competent doctor, are glandular extracts, vitamin A, drying lotions for the skin, X rays and ultraviolet lamps...
...were sewn onto the flesh. Later, when sewing became impossible because of Mike's weakened condition Dr. Young stuck skin grafts on with thrombin, a clotting agent which served as a sort of human glue. Through the weeks there were over 100 plasma transfusions, eight skin graftings, endless vitamin and protein injections, billions of units of penicillin...
Anna grabbed her Chinese padded gown, a box of vitamin pills, three handkerchiefs, and followed her captors. "My mind raced madly . . . What, what, what had I done? Why, everybody liked me here! At the last diplomatic reception, Mme. Molotov had shown me a special favor . . . We turned . . . into the inner court of Lyubyanka prison . . . 'How,' I gasped, 'shall I ever get out of here...