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Answer? In Berkeley, Calif., a scientist found that pigs who lacked enough vitamin B took to doing the goosestep...
...About 20% of all alcoholics who come to hospitals are afflicted with glossy, burning feet, paralyzed arms & legs. This disease, known as polyneuritis, is caused, not by alcohol, but by a vitamin deficiency -for heavy drinkers get their calories in liquor, usually lose their appetite for food. "The disease," say the authors, "never occurs in inebriates who are well-nourished. . . . It can be cured by adding vitamin B1 to the diet...
...Very hot? Boiling hot? Take a pill. If the pill is a vitamin C tablet, it will stave off heat prostration and muscle cramps, said Dr. John Henry Foulger of Du Pont...
Several summers ago, Dr. Foulger learned that Bantu miners in South Africa sweat out large quantities of vitamin C (found in oranges and lemons), frequently develop muscle weakness, even though they eat plenty of fresh fruits & vegetables. With this clue in mind, Du Pont doctors gave their workers two vitamin C tablets (ascorbic acid) a day, along with common salt tablets, to replenish the salt lost in perspiration. Result: cases of heat exhaustion, formerly four or five a day, disappeared, even when the temperature soared to over 100 degrees. The pills, said Dr. Foulger, "should prove useful in steel mills...
Following antique herbals, many housewives concocted their own elixir of hips. Widespread result: they found themselves not only spooning out vitamin C to their bairns, but, as corks popped in pantries, indulging in a potent homebrew. Amused but impressed, one British medical journal observed: "We may even see hip syrup competing with orange juice after...