Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full of modesty and the morale vitamin, Jeff comes home from the wars with a Congressional Medal of Honor, is boomed for the State Senate by his G.I. buddies, gives the "Oak Falls" machine its first lambasting in 20 years. After one slapdown in the Senate he finds his political legs, starts chasing political rats. First rat: the grafting director of a state insane asylum. Next on the fighting Senator's agenda: underpayment of teachers, black-market babies, maladministration of prisons...
Singleminded research has taken Dr. Tom D. Spies (rhymes with fees) deeper and deeper into the dim regions of deficiency diseases. It has also led him to major medical discoveries. Last week in Science he announced a new one with a report that folic acid, part of the vitamin B complex, was a remedy for tropical sprue, a widespread disease in such teeming, undernourished lands as Puerto Rico...
...biggest discovery, for which he received a medal in 1939 from the American College of Physicians: nicotinic acid (part of B-2 vitamin) cures pellagra, a common affliction among poor Southerners who live on fatback and corn pone...
...spadework. Many of his discoveries have been anticipated by other researchers, who concede that he has a happy "faculty of extending the observations" of other workers, that he fights hard, for his ideas. A few years ago he tangled with official medicine, whose therapeutic policy was a single vitamin for a single deficiency. Spies insisted that deficiency diseases were best treated by vitamin complexes. Doctors now admit that Tom Spies was right...
...Ertron, a vitamin preparation touted as "Hope for the Victims of Arthritis," but deflated by the Journal as "unimpressive...