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...Johns Hopkins: the Eli Lilly & Co. award of $1,000, given each year for distinguished research in biochemistry. Dr. Ball purified xanthine oxidase, an enzyme necessary for oxidation of food in the body; found it consisted of a protein fraction and a non-protein fraction containing phosphorus, nitrogen, Vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Compounds & Concoctions | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Gelatin Products spread into an adjoining store, then into an old factory, finally got its new plant this year, complete with bridge tables and lounging chairs in the men's washrooms. Today it supplies 177 U. S. pharmaceutical houses (including such big fellows as Parke, Davis and International Vitamin Corp.), puts up 142 capsuled formulas, is the largest buyer of vitamin compounds in the world. Gelatin Products buys some 60% of its own pharmaceuticals direct, makes a profit on them as well as on its capsules; the rest of the "fill" is supplied by customers for gelatin-packaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Slug-Abed Engineer | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Three years ago the first of Feb. I fell on the sidewalk in St. Petersburg and fractured my left hip and have been a bed and wheelchair invalid. I am 76 years, I got complications and ended with arthrtis, I take shots of vitamin B and sufer for which I pay my Dr. $3.00 I am doing without it so I can send it to the Met. Opera. If this works out all right and I dont have a return of that awful pain I may send $3 later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Passes Hat | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gehrig's Disease | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gehrig's Disease | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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