Word: vitamine
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...Stetson is the author of Sunspots and Their Effects (TIME, Nov. 22), in which he ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology through such channels as vitamin intake, electrical effects on nerve impulses, electrified particles in the air. Hence, since business activity is "fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded...
...lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life by means of a strange, almost unheard-of ingredient of food, a substance which in its impure state came to be called vitamin B (for beri-beri). At once he decided what course he would follow in the years ahead...
...years later, Dr. (Sc. D.) Williams, chemical director of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, has succeeded in synthesizing the curative substance, which is now called vitamin B2.* Upon advice of the American Medical Association, he re-named the vitamin thiamin because it contains sulfur (Greek theion). The American Chemical Society this spring awarded Dr. Williams its Willard Gibbs (highest) Medal. Science has just published a detailed article by him. "The Chemistry and Biological Significance of Thiamin." And next week Macmillan's will publish Vitamin B1 and its Use in Medicine ($5), which he wrote with Dr. Tom Douglas Spies...
...picture is different. Dr. Elias Lincoln Stern of Columbia believes that many sick people who take in plenty of Bt with their food are unable to utilize it because an alkaline condition of the blood or digestive tract neutralizes it. In such cases the hungry nerves snap up the vitamin, if any reaches them, like a hungry man wolfing a plate of ham and eggs. To sidestep possible alkalinity in the body, Dr. Stern administers the vitamin directly to the spine...
...anuria, tabes dorsales, multiple sclerosis. These were not all cured by any means, especially in the cancer cases, but in all cases there was a diminution of pain, the patients looked and felt better, and in some instances there was a rejuvenating effect which Dr. Stern attributed to the vitamin. His most touching case was an elderly woman who was almost pathologically addicted to sweets and had von Recklinghausen's disease (ugly nodules all over the body). She not only improved clinically but gleefully announced that she felt like a girl...