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Right Combination. If the body could be stimulated to produce more histamine, Wirtschafter reasoned, many ailments due to constriction or blocking of blood vessels might be easily cured. In the test tube, histamine can be made by combining two well-known substances-vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and an amino acid called histidine. Would it work in the body? First on guinea pigs and then on his patients, Wirtschafter tried intravenous injections of vitamin C, followed by intramuscular injection of a histidine solution. Sure enough, it worked: blood tests showed an increase in histamine...
Harvard's Quentin M. Geiman and Ralph W. McKee said that they now know, pretty well, what foods the monkey parasite thrives on-para-aminobenzoic acid (a B complex vitamin), glycerol sodium acetate, certain other vitamins and amino acids. They have also been able to test the effect of antimalarial drugs...
Modern man has developed innumerable devices for blowing himself up, giving himself bad eyesight, high blood pressure, flat feet, nervous indigestion, and ossification of the brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue...
Christmas bonuses and free Florida vacations were now out, but free lunches, music, vitamin pills would be continued. Jahco, which will lose $1.5 million this year, hopes to get in the black this month, hit its production stride next year. Already on hand, said Foy, were $56 million worth of orders for refrigerator compressors, fractional horsepower motors, ball bearings, magnetos...
Misconception No. 1. Prolonged drinking, he thinks, has made him an irreparable physical wreck. The fact: alcohol weakens the body, but seldom damages it permanently. Aside from certain easily remediable ailments (such as a temporarily enlarged liver, vitamin deficiency diseases-e.g., pellagra), there are few disorders traceable to drinking. Cirrhosis of the liver, one of the few which seems to have a connection, attacks only 8% of drunkards (v. 1% in the general population...